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Historical Economic and Social Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Yiming Cao
Boston University
2
Dylan Sullivan
Macquarie University
3
Sara K. Berkowitz
Widener University
4
Philipp Ager
University of Mannheim
5
Jeremy Atack
National Bureau of Economic Research
6
Maria Waldinger
Ifo Institute for Economic Research
7
Nicola Ialongo
University of Göttingen
8
Evan Bourke
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
9
Dávid Krisztián Nagy
Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional
10
Charles Angelucci
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rising Stars Papers

1
How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis
World Development Perspectives|2024
50 cit.
2
Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are about Political News
American Economic Review|2024
33 cit.
3
Media Competition and News Diets
American Economic Journal Microeconomics|2024
19 cit.
4
Consumption patterns in prehistoric Europe are consistent with modern economic behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour|2024
12 cit.
5
Stretch-Induced Injury Affects Cortical Neuronal Networks in a Time- and Severity-Dependent Manner
Annals of Biomedical Engineering|2024
5 cit.
6
The introduction of coinage in Europe did not change pre-existing monetary patterns
Frontiers in Human Dynamics|2024
2 cit.
7
How Bronze Age Europeans almost got rid of money
Economic Anthropology|2024
1 cit.
8
Kindergartens and Intergenerational Mobility
AEA Papers and Proceedings|2025
1 cit.
9
The Dynamics of Multi-Project Collaborations
SSRN Electronic Journal|2024
0 cit.
10
Organizing a Kingdom
SSRN Electronic Journal|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Amanda Vickery
University of North Texas
2
Mesay Gebresilasse
Amherst College
3
Huzaifa Zoomkawala
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
4
David Daokui Li
Tsinghua University
5
Hanhui Guan
Peking University
6
Daniel M. Knight
University of St Andrews
7
Gene Silberberg
Unknown
8
Luigi Pascali
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
9
Emily A. Sellars
Yale University
10
Morten Jerven
Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
National responsibility for ecological breakdown: a fair-shares assessment of resource use, 1970–2017
The Lancet Planetary Health|2022
210 cit.
2
Polycrisis: Prompts for an emerging worldview
Anthropology Today|2023
196 cit.
3
Wars, Taxation, and Representation: Evidence from Five Centuries of German History
Journal of the European Economic Association|2025
31 cit.
4
Measuring the end of hunger: Knowledge politics in the selection of SDG food security indicators
Agriculture and Human Values|2023
21 cit.
5
The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260–1368
The Economic History Review|2024
19 cit.
6
The Politics of Decentralization Level: Local and Regional Devolution as Substitutes
World Politics|2023
14 cit.
7
Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico
American Journal of Political Science|2024
13 cit.
8
The history of hunger: Counting calories to make global food security legible
World Development Perspectives|2023
11 cit.
9
Exceptionalist narratives and faceless clip art: Critically analyzing Indigenous history resources found on online curriculum marketplaces
Teaching and Teacher Education|2023
7 cit.
10
Which direction for sustainable development? A time series comparison of the impacts of redistributive versus market policies in Bolivia and South Korea
Sustainable Development|2023
7 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
James A. Robinson
University of Nigeria
2
Barry R. Weingast
Stanford University
3
Jan Luiten van Zanden
Utrecht University
4
Andrei Shleifer
National Bureau of Economic Research
5
Simon Johnson
Geological Survey of Western Australia
6
Jeffrey G. Williamson
University of Florida
7
Hans‐Joachim Voth
University of Zurich
8
Nancy Qian
Bread for the World Institute
9
Catherine Hall
University of Essex
10
Jacob Weisdorf
Sapienza University of Rome

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
A Survey of Corporate Governance
The Journal of Finance|1997
16.2k cit.
2
Corporate Ownership Around the World
The Journal of Finance|1999
10.7k cit.
3
Large Shareholders and Corporate Control
Journal of Political Economy|1986
8.6k cit.
4
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation
American Economic Review|2001
8.3k cit.
5
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply
American Economic Review|2012
6.1k cit.
6
Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England
The Journal of Economic History|1989
5.3k cit.
7
Growth in Cities
Journal of Political Economy|1992
4.6k cit.
8
Corruption
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|1993
3.7k cit.
9
The law and economics of self-dealing
Journal of Financial Economics|2008
3.6k cit.
10
Politicians and Firms
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|1994
3.4k cit.

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