2020

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• Andrew Jackson's Bank War and the Panic of 1837 AI翻译
  作者：Wellesley College; Northwestern University
• Local Origins and Implications of the 1930s Urban Debt Crisis AI翻译
  作者：Colby College
• Schooling under Control. The Origins of Public Education in Imperial Austria 1769-1869 AI翻译
  作者：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore
• Did Railways Affect Literacy? Evidence from India AI翻译
  作者：United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; Naval Postgraduate School; University of Warwick
• Do Black Politicians Matter? Evidence from Reconstruction AI翻译
  作者：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：This paper exploits the history of Reconstruction after the American Civil War to estimate the effect of politician race on public finance. While the effect of black politicians is positive and significant, black officials may be endogenous to electoral preferences for redistribution. I therefore use the number of free blacks in the antebellum era (1860) as an instrument for black political leaders during Reconstruction. Instrumental variables (IV) estimates show that an additional black offic...
• Canals and Orchards: The Impact of Transport Network Access on Agricultural Productivity in Nineteenth-Century Bangkok AI翻译
  作者：Chulalongkorn University
  摘要：We assess the impact of access to Bangkok's nineteenth-century canal network on orchard productivity using a new dataset constructed from 1880s orchard land deeds. We find that properties located adjacent to canals, which were built for purposes exogenous to orchard production, had significantly higher labor productivity than those located inland. Gaining direct access to canals led to productivity improvements through better access to markets, which in turn enhanced cultivators' welfare. We c...
• Meritocracy versus the Market: The Cardwell Reforms and Staffing the Officer Corps of the British Army AI翻译
  作者：Colorado College; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
• Financial Asset Ownership and Political Partisanship: Liberty Bonds and Republican Electoral Success in the 1920s AI翻译
  作者：Wellesley College; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  摘要：We analyze the effects of ownership of liberty bonds on election outcomes in the 1920s. We find that counties with higher liberty bond ownership rates turned against the Democratic Party in the presidential elections of 1920 and 1924. This was a reaction to the depreciation of the bonds prior to the 1920 election (when the Democrats held the presidency) and the appreciation of the bonds in the early 1920s (under a Republican president), as the Federal Reserve raised and then subsequently lower...
• The Emergency: British Detention Camps and the Origins of Distrust in Kenya AI翻译
  作者：Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Leibniz University Hannover
• Adopting and Enforcing General Laws in the United States, 1830 to 1880 AI翻译
  作者：Yale University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park