Publication Awards
Publication Awards
Arthur H. Cole Prize
Arthur H. Cole Prize is awarded annually by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic History for the best article in the previous year’s volume of the Journal.
Congratulations to the 2023 Arthur H. Cole Prize
Cormac O’Grada (University College Dublin) and Morgan Kelly (University College Dublin) for the article: “Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics” Vol. 82, No. 3
Arthur H. Cole Prize Recipients
| YEAR | RECIPIENT | INSTITUTION | TITLE | JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY ISSUE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Cormac OGrada and Morgan Kelly | University College Dublin | Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics | Vol. 82, No. 3 |
| 2022 | Chicheng Ma | Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits | 81 (4): 1052-1097 | |
| 2021 | Neil Cummins | Where is the Middle Class? Evidence from 60 million English Death and Probate Records, 1892-1992 | 81 (2): 359-404 | |
| 2020 | Felipe Gonzlez, Mounu Prem, and Francisco Urza | The Privatization Origins of Political Corporations: Evidence from the Pinochet Regime | 80(2):417-456, 2020 | |
| 2019 | Alexander Persaud | University of Richmond | Escaping Local Risk by Entering Indentureship: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Indian Migration | 79 (2) |
| 2018 | Mohamed Saleh | Toulouse School of Economics | On the Road to Heaven: Taxation, Conversion, and the Coptic-Muslim Socioeconomic Gap in Medieval Egypt | June |
| 2017 | Trevon Logan and John Parman | he National Rise in Segregation | March | |
| 2016 | Werner Troesken, Brian Beach, Joe Ferrie, and Martin Saavedrawere | Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation | March | |
| 2015 | Price Fishback and Valentina Kachanovskaya | University of Arizona | The Multiplier for the States in the Great Depression | March |
| 2014 | Martha Bailey, University of Michigan and Nicolas Duquette, University of Southern California | How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Politics and Economics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity | June | |
| 2013 | Dan Bogart, UC-Irvine and Latika Chaudhary, Scripps College | Engines of Growth: The Productivity Advance of Indian Railways, 1874-1912 | June | |
| 2012 | Marlous van Waijenburg, Northwestern and Ewout Frankema, Wageningen University | Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880-1965 | December | |
| 2011 | Nikolaus Wolf, Max-Stephan Schultze, and Hans-Christian Heinemeyer | On the Economic Consequences of the Peace: Trade and Borders After Versailles | December | |
| 2010 | Michael Huberman, University of Montreal, and Christopher Meissner, UC Davis | Riding the Wave of Trade: The Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization | September | |
| 2009 | Rui Esteves (Oxford) and David Khoudour-Castras (CEPII) | A Fantastic Rain of Gold: European Migrants Remittances and Balance of Payments Adjustment During the Gold Standard Period | December | |
| 2008 | Eric Hilt | Wellesley College | When did Ownership Separate from Control? Corporate Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century | September |
| 2007 | Aldo Musacchio | Harvard Business School | an Civil Law Countries get Good Institutions: Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil | March |
| 2006 | Tim Leunig | London School of Economics | Time is Money: A Re-assessment of the Passenger Social Savings From Victorian British Railways | September |
| 2005 | Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff | The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World | December | |
| 2004 | Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker | Completing a Financial Revolution: The Finance of the Dutch East India Trade and the Rise of the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1595-1612 | September | |
| 2003 | John James and Mark Thomas | University Virginia | A Golden Age: Unemployment and the American Labor Market, 1880-1910 | December |
| 2002 | Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode | University of California Davis and the University of North Carolina | Hog-Round Marketing, Seed Quality, and Government Policy: Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production, 1920-1960 | June |
| 2001 | Suleyman Ozmucur and Sevket Pamuk | Bogazici University | Real Wages and the Standards of Living in the Ottoman Empire, 1489-1914 | June |
| 2000 | Lillian Li | Swarthmore College | Integration and Disintegration in North Chinas Grain Markets, 1738-1911 | September |
| 1999 | Gerardo Della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor | Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression: Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime | September | |
| 1998 | Charles Feinstein | All Souls College, Oxford University, U.K., for Pessimism Perpetuated: Real Wages and the Standard of Living in Britain during and after the Industrial Revolution | September | |
| 1997 | Kevin ORourke | The European Grain Invasion, 1870-1913 | September |