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What happens in Paris, does not stay in Paris : trade fairs and search and matching frictions

Békés, Gábor; Molnár, Mátyás; Steinwender, Claudia - 2026

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What happens in Paris, does not stay in Paris : trade fairs and search and matching frictions

Békés, Gábor; Molnár, Mátyás; Steinwender, Claudia - 2026

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What happens in Paris, does not stay in Paris : trade fairs and search and matching frictions

Békés, Gábor; Molnár, Mátyás; Steinwender, Claudia - 2026

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Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century English courtrooms

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2026

This paper studies how and why anti-Irish sentiment in 19th century England spills over onto jury decisions at London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court. We classify the (perceived) ethnicity of courtroom participants according to whether they have distinctly Irish or English surnames based...

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Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century English courtrooms

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2026

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Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century English courtrooms

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2026

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Mapping technological trajectories : evidence from two centuries of patent data

Bergeaud, Antonin; Gozen, Ruveyda Nur; Van Reenen, John - 2026

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Mapping technological trajectories : evidence from two centuries of patent data

Bergeaud, Antonin; Gozen, Ruveyda Nur; Van Reenen, John - 2026

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Poverty relief policies in pre- and post-transformation Poland : a Polanyian perspective

Lüpnitz, Jonas - 2026

This working paper investigates the tension between market forces and welfare policies by applying Karl Polanyi's "double movement" study to pre- and posttransformation Poland. The analysis aims at providing a comprehensive perspective on how poverty relief policies impacted and have been...

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Poverty relief policies in pre- and post-transformation Poland: A Polanyian perspective

Lüpnitz, Jonas - 2026

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Mothers, schools, and the making of American human capital mobility

Althoff, Lukas; Brookes Gray, Harriet; Reichardt, Hugo - 2026 - Original version: March 2025, this version: Januar 2026

How did the US become a land of opportunity? Previous historical research on intergenerational mobility has focused on father-son income correlations, masking the role of mothers. We introduce a new mobility measure that incorporates both parents’ human capital, develop a latent variable...

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Marshall at the times of Marshall

Boeri, Filippo; Silva, Olmo - 2026

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Income inequality and structural transformation : evidence from Swedish micro data, 1870–1970

Bengtsson, Erik; Molinder, Jakob; Prado, Svante - 2026

We study the relationship between the structural transformation of the economy and the income distribution, focusing on the case of Sweden from 1870 to 1970, with extra attention paid to the 1870-1950 period, for which we produce extensive new data. Average income increased fivefold between 1870...

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A practitioner's guide to using large language models and generative ai in economic history

Ferrara, Andreas - 2026

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What did workers do? : using job ads to analyze the task content of work in an industrializing economy

Hellberg, Erik; Molinder, Jakob - 2026

Ever since Smith and Marx there has been a debate about the impact of industrialization on the content of work. While shifts in the occupational structure associated with industrialization are well charted, we lack systematic evidence on the tasks workers actually performed during this period of...

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Recovery and transition of the japanese economy after world war II : productivity implications of policy regime changes on the coal mining industry

Okazaki, Tetsuji - 2026

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A nation of contrast? : the geography of personality in Sweden, regional polarization, and a research agenda

Obschonka, Martin; Grillitsch, Markus; Guldåker, Nicklas; … - 2025

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The long-run evolution of global real wages

Zwart, Pim de - 2025

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Inequality in history : a long-run view

Alfani, Guido - 2025

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Inequality in history : a long-run view

Alfani, Guido - 2023

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Synthesizing explanations behind global gender (in)equality : identifying the gaps and moving forward with more economic history

Dilli, Selin - 2025

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Multidimensional composite indicators of well-being : applications in economic history

Rijpma, Auke; Philips, Robin C. M.; Bavel, Bas J. P. van - 2025

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The economic growth and regional convergence in interwar Poland : detailed historical national accounts

Bukowski, Maciej; Kowalski, Michał; Wroński, Marcin - 2025

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The impact of railway on the regional economic development and social mobility in the Congress Kingdom of Poland

Koryś, Piotr; Wroński, Marcin - 2025

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America's rise in human capital mobility

Althoff, Lukas; Brookes Gray, Harriet; Reichardt, Hugo - 2025

How did the US become a land of opportunity? We show that the country’s pioneering role in mass education was key. Unlike previous research, which has focused on father-son income correlations, we incorporate both parents in a new measure of intergenerational mobility that considers multiple...

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America's rise in human capital mobility

Althoff, Lukas; Brookes Gray, Harriet; Reichardt, Hugo - 2025

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The size of the offshore sector in the Norwegian economy

Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Koilo, Viktoriia - 2025

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Branch banking and regional financial markets : evidence from prewar Japan

Hoffmann, Mathias; Okazaki, Tetsuji; Okubo, Toshihiro - 2025

In Japan in the 1920s, several financial crises and government policy led to bank mergers and the consolidation and expansion of branch networks. Using unique historical bank branch-level lending and deposit data, we show that branch banking integrated peripheral markets with the rest of the...

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Branch banking and regional financial markets : evidence from prewar Japan

Hoffmann, Mathias; Okazaki, Tetsuji; Okubo, Toshihiro - 2025

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Branch banking and regional financial markets : evidence from prewar Japan

Hoffmann, Mathias; Okazaki, Tetsuji; Okubo, Toshihiro - 2019

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The patent system of the Netherlands in a Belgian mirror, 1817-1869

Wagenaar, Homer - 2025

This paper is an institutional study of the patent systems of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and its successor states Belgium and the Netherlands in the nineteenth century. The patent law of 1817 gave the state wide discretion to accept or refuse patents and to customise their duration,...

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The patent system of the Netherlands in a Belgian mirror, 1817-1869

Wagenaar, Homer - 2025

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Text analysis methods for historical letters, the case of Michelangelo Buonarrotti

Gatti, Fabio; Huesler, Joel - 2025

The correspondence of historical personalities serves as a rich source of psychological, social, and economic information. Letters were indeed used as means of communication within the family circles but also a primary method for exchanging information with colleagues, subordinates, and...

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The economic effects of long-term climate change : evidence from the little ice age : replication

Cook, Nikolai; Cordeau, Hugo; Li, Tongzhe - 2025

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Colonial governance and resource allocation in the British West Indies (1838-1938)

Bertinelli, Luisito; Gatti, Fabio; Strobl, Eric - 2025

Plantation elites continued to dominate local colonial governments in the British West Indies even after the abolition of slavery in 1834, directing public spending towards maintaining public order and protecting their property. As such they resisted any reforms that threatened their power,...

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Institutions, history, antagonisms, and development : the contributions of Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson

Papaioannou, Elias - 2025

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The WBdigital database : a digital repository for the historical DIW-Wochenbericht, 1928-1968

Schöps, Marcus; Wedekind, Enrico; Gebel, Tobias; … - 2025

Economic and social scientists are increasingly interested in historical data, but many relevant sources are still available in analog form, limiting accessibility and research potential. This article introduces the WBdigital database, which aims to improve this situation. The database provides...

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The first 20 years of Estonia's independent economy in 1920-1940

Lepik, Ilmar - 2025

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A long-term perspective of the resource curse hypothesis

Ducoing, Cristián - 2025

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Reinterpretation of economic history in the Baltic countries, 30 years after independence

Kõll, Anu-Mai - 2025

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Applying a transaction cost perspective to decode viking Scandinavia's earliest recorded value relation : insights from the forsa ring's runic inscription

Edvinsson, Rodney - 2025

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The past, present and future of Nordic environmental economic history

Lindmark, Magnus - 2025

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Inflation and energy price shocks : lessons from the 1970s

Gomellini, Matteo; Pellegrino, Dario; Corsello, Francesco - 2025

The 1970s oil shocks sparked high and persistent inflation in advanced economies, also tied to the collapse of the Bretton Woods international monetary system in 1971 that left monetary policy without a stable institutional reference framework. Only in the following decades did a new monetary...

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Risk management in prewar China : a study of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in Qing dynasty and Republican-era Shanxi province

Lowenstein, Matthew - 2025

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Long-term effects of a commodity boom : rubber slavery in the Amazon

Araújo, Daniel; Laudares, Humberto; Murillo, Dafne; … - 2025

Can a brief period of economic prosperity leave a legacy of long-term adversity for local populations? This study investigates the enduring impact of the Amazon rubber boom around 1900 on contemporary income, inequality, Indigenous groups presence, and forest conservation. Identification...

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Disruptive effects of natural disasters : the 1906 San Francisco Fire

Schwank, Hanna M. - 2024 - This version: June 18, 2024

Natural disasters are growing in frequency globally. Understanding how vulnerable populations respond to these disasters is essential for effective policy response. This paper explores the short- and long-run consequences of the 1906 San Francisco Fire, one of the largest urban fires in American...

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Disruptive effects of natural disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire

Schwank, Hanna M. - 2024

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That old time religion : christianity and Black economic progress after reconstruction

Petach, Luke - 2026

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That Old Time Religion: Christianity and Black Economic Progress After Reconstruction

Petach, Luke - 2024

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That old time religion : christianity and black economic progress after reconstruction

Petach, Luke - 2024

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Manufacturing revolutions : industrial policy and industrialization in South Korea

Lane, Nathan - 2024

I study the impact of industrial policy on industrial development by considering an important episode during the East Asian miracle: South Korea’s heavy and chemical industry (HCI) drive, 1973–1979. Based on newly assembled data, I use the introduction and termination of industrial policies...

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Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea

Lane, Nathan - 2024

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"No commercial activity leaves greater benefit" : the profitability of the Cuban-based slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century

Sanjuan-Marroquin, Jose Miguel; Rodrigo-Alharilla, Martin - 2024

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How did the European Marriage Pattern persist? : social versus familial inheritance : England and Quebec, 1650-1850

Clark, Gregory; Cummins, Neil; Curtis, Matthew - 2024

The European Marriage Pattern (EMP), in place in NW Europe for perhaps 500 years, substantially limited fertility. But how could such limitation persist when some individuals who deviated from the EMP norm had more children? If their children inherited their deviant behaviors, their descendants...

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Eastern Europe before transition : exploring historical trade data on external economic relations in CESEE's command economies

Hanzl-Weiss, Doris - 2024

This paper revisits the external economic relations in the former command economies of Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) by exploring historical trade data. It provides a descriptive analysis of foreign trade statistics, drawing on the newly introduced wiiw COMECON Dataset, which...

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Eastern Europe before transition: Exploring historical trade data on external economic relations in CESEE's command economies

Hanzl-Weiss, Doris - 2024

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Aggregate debt servicing and the limit on private credit

Drehmann, Mathias; Juselius, Mikael; Quincy, Sarah - 2024

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Economic history as a progressive science

Koyama, Mark - 2024

This essay examines the relationship between Austrian economics and economic history. It notes their different origins as scholarly fields, and divergent trajectories over the course of the twentieth century, before discussing recent examples of cross-fertilization and pointing to areas of...

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Economic history as a progressive science

Koyama, Mark - 2024

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Economic history and Austrian theory

Tynan, Nicola - 2024

Economic history has become an increasingly broad discipline, after a temporary narrowing following the cliometric revolution of the mid-twentieth century. Increasingly sophisticated econometric techniques are used to capture the institutional detail involved in the dynamics of historical...

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Economic history and Austrian theory

Tynan, Nicola - 2024

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Hayek, ideas, and economic history

DeCanio, Samuel - 2024

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Hayek, ideas, and economic history

DeCanio, Samuel - 2024

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Understanding the rise of regulation during the progressive era: What role for Austrian economics?

Law, Marc T. - 2024

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Understanding the rise of regulation during the progressive era : what role for Austrian economics?

Law, Marc T. - 2024

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Deindustrialization of Detroit: The costs of movement

Battista, Jackson - 2024

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Deindustrialization of Detroit : the costs of movement

Battista, Jackson - 2024

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Irish regional GDP since independence

De Bromhead, Alan; Kenny, Sean - 2024

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Irish regional GDP since independence

De Bromhead, Alan; Kenny, Sean - 2024

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Irish regional GDP since independence

De Bromhead, Alan; Kenny, Sean - 2024

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Irish regional GDP since independence

De Bromhead, Alan; Kenny, Sean - 2024

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The evolution of the two-wheeler industry : a comparative study of Italy, Japan and India

Aversa, Paolo - 2024

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Robustness report on "Coercive contract enforcement: law and the labor market in nineteenth century industrial Britain", by Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman (2013)

Campbell, Douglas L.; Brodeur, Abel; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2024

Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) find that labor demand shocks in 19th-century Britain had an impact on master and servant prosecutions, as breaking an employee contract was a criminal offense until 1875. We first reproduce all regression tables in Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) and then test for robustness...

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The German Cliometrics database

Jopp, Tobias Alexander; Spoerer, Mark - 2024

This short article introduces the German Cliometrics Database as the foundation for an article by Jopp and Spoerer (2024) who trace cliometric research on German history. This newly constructed database of every publication that (1) contributes to the historiography of Germany and (2) employs,...

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The German cliometrics database

Jopp, Tobias Alexander; Spoerer, Mark - 2024

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