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作者:Clark University
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作者:Middlebury College; Emory University
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作者:Universite de Montreal
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作者:Stanford University; Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po); University of New South Wales Sydney
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作者:Princeton University; University of Toronto; University of Bristol
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作者:Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Chicago
摘要:An economic downturn coincided with the start of the epidemic but the recession was short and moderate, compared with that of 1920/21. Cross-sectional high-frequency data indicate that the epidemic affected the labor supply sharply but briefly with no ensuing spill-overs; most of the recession, brief as it was, was due to the end of the war. I analyze weekly city-level mortality data and economic indicators with time series methods and structural estimation of an economic-epidemiological model...
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作者:Middlebury College; Stanford University
摘要:This paper investigates part-year factory operation, a common but understudied dimension of industrializing economies, in a prototypical late-industrializing setting that offers rich factory-level data: Imperial Russia. Newly compiled data provides detailed descriptions of all Russian manufacturing firms operating in 1894 and shows that factories operating a greater number of annual working days were more mechanized, more urban, more likely to employ women and children, more productive, and mo...
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作者:National University of Singapore
摘要:Black and white Americans tend to have different names today. This divide was long in the making. I show that the racial divergence in naming patterns was a gradual and continuous process spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I then exploit the migration of households from the South to determine if place matters for name choices. Children born after their households moved receive names that are less black or more white than their older siblings, a difference that widens with time sp...
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作者:Montclair State University; Yale University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
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作者:Vanderbilt University