Report NEP-HIS-2026-05-11

This is the archive for NEP-HIS, a report on new working papers in the area of Business, Economic and Financial History. Bernardo Batiz-Lazo issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Lukas Althoff & Harriet M. Brookes Gray & Hugo Reichardt, 2026, "Mothers, Schools, and the Making of American Human Capital Mobility," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35152, Apr.
• Dribe, Martin & Hedefalk, Finn, 2026, "Neighborhoods and Childhood Mortality in an Industrializing Port Town: A Micro-Spatial Analysis of Landskrona, Sweden, 1882–1939," Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History, number 267, Apr.
• Boelmann, Barbara & Stapper, Carola, 2026, "Missing Men and Women’s Demand for Political Representation," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18587, Apr.
• Johannes Boehm & Thomas Chaney, 2026, "Trade and the End of Antiquity," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35156, Apr.
• Tetsuji Okazaki, 2026, "Evaluating the Production Capacity Expansion Plan for the Iron and Steel Industry in Japan during World War II: Background, Achievement, and Long-Run Impact," CIRJE J-Series, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, number CIRJE-J-317, Apr.
• Daniela Vidart, 2026, "Learning by Mail: The Impact of Correspondence Schools in Early 20th Century America," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35147, Apr.
• Kartik B. Athreya, 2026, "Opening Remarks at The 2026 Federal Reserve Financial and Monetary History Conference," Speech, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, number 103179, May.
• Felix Ward & Casper de Vries, 2026, "The bank leverage response to tax shield changes," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 26-016/VI, Apr.
• Ran Huang, 2026, "The Reservation Inflation of Hard Money: Gold-Standard Deflation and the Real Expansion of Nominal Claims, 1873-1896," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2604.26248, Apr.
• Pauline Grosjean & Saumitra Jha & Michael Vlassopoulos & Yves Zenou, 2025, "Political Breakthroughs in the Trenches," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 2539, Jul.
• Barry R. Chiswick & RaeAnn H. Robinson, 2025, "Jewish occupational attainment in the antebellum United States: Filling a gap in the literature," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 2541, Jul.
• Nikolova, Elena & Plopeanu, Aurelian, 2026, "Empires, gender attitudes and tolerance: Evidence from Romania," GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO), number 1747.
• Johan Fourie & Calumet Links, 2026, "Demographic Pressure, Emancipation and Selection into the Great Trek," Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics, number 06/2026.
• Morales Meoqui, Jorge, 2026, "An Astonishing Turn in the Attribution Debate on the Law of Comparative Advantage," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number 4h5ks_v1, Apr, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/4h5ks_v1.
• Barry R. Chiswick & RaeAnn H. Robinson, 2025, "An Analysis of Slaveholders According to the 1850 Census," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 2542, Jul.
• Leander Heldring & Davis Kedrosky & James A. Robinson & Matthias Weigand, 2026, "The Success of the Embedded State in England," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35130, Apr.
• Ronan C. Lyons & Allison Shertzer & Rowena Gray, 2026, "Rental Prices and the Cost of Living in the United States, 1914–2006," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35124, Apr.
• Giuliano, Paola, 2026, "Sticky Traditions: Origin, Persistence, and Evolution of Cultural Norms," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18583, Apr.
• Grimm, Maximilian & Schularick, Moritz & Verner, Emil, 2026, "Financial liberalizations, booms, and crashes," Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, number 2320.
• Doxey, Alison & Karger, Ezra & Nencka, Peter, 2026, "High Schools and the Uneven Rise in American Opportunity," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18580, Apr.
• Paola Giuliano, 2026, "Sticky Traditions: Origin, Persistence, and Evolution of Cultural Norms," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35125, Apr.
• Vincent Geloso & Patrick Crawford, 2026, "Did Newspaper Competition Promote Rebellion? The case of the 1837-38 Rebellions in Quebec," CIRANO Working Papers, CIRANO, number 2026s-07, Apr.
• Kris James Mitchener & Goncalo Pina, 2026, "The State-Contingent Debt Premium: Evidence from French Public Bonds," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12630.
• Velazco, Jacqueline, 2026, "Identifying the roles of agriculture in the economic growth process: The Peruvian case for the period 1896-2012," 100th Annual Conference, March 23-25, 2026, Wadham College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Agricultural Economics Society (AES), number 397898, Mar, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.397898.
• Laura Caron, 2026, "The Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Expanding Public Education for Disabled Students," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2604.25767, Apr.