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• Arrested Development? Puerto Rico in an American Century AI翻译
  作者：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Queens College NY (CUNY)
  摘要：Puerto Rico became an American colony in 1898, achieving self-rule after the Great Depression. The standard view is that Puerto Rican living standards stagnated before the policy changes of the New Deal and it has lost ground on the mainland since the early 1970s. I show these claims are mistaken. Using a new GDP index for 1900 to 1940, I show that income per capita grew at impressive rates during direct American rule and Puerto Rico escaped the worst ravages of the Great Depression. In additi...
• What Motivates an Oligarchic Elite to Democratize? Evidence from the Roll Call Vote on the Great Reform Act of 1832 AI翻译
  作者：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  摘要：The Great Reform Act of 1832 was a watershed for democracy in Great Britain. We study the vote on 22 March 1831 in the House of Commons to test three competing theories of democratization: public opinion, political expedience, and threat of revolution. Peaceful agitation and mass-support for reform played an important role. Political expedience also motivated some members of Parliament to support the reform, especially if they were elected in constituencies located in counties that would gain ...
• French and British Colonial Legacies in Education: Evidence from the Partition of Cameroon AI翻译
  作者：University of Warwick
  摘要：Cameroon was partitioned between France and the United Kingdom after WWI and then reunited after independence. I use this natural experiment to investigate colonial legacies in education, using a border discontinuity analysis of historical census microdata from 1976. I find that men born in the decades following partition had, all else equal, one more year of schooling if they were born in the British part. This positive British effect disappeared after 1950, as the French increased education ...
• Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan. AI翻译
  作者：Australian National University
• Islam Instrumentalized: Religion and Politics in Historical Perspective. AI翻译
  作者：Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics
• The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society. AI翻译
  作者：Chapman University System; Chapman University
• Freedom's Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution. AI翻译
  作者：University of Warwick
• Six Centuries of Real Wages in France from Louis IX to Napoleon III: 1250-1860 AI翻译
  作者：Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
  摘要：Evidence of an early modern Little divergence in real wages between northwestern Europe and the rest of the continent is mostly based on the comparative study of a sample of leading European cities. Focusing on France and England this study reassesses the debate from a country-level perspective. The findings challenge the notion of an early modern divergence pointing to the coexistence of both divergence and convergence phases until the eighteenth century. Results also suggest that the real wa...
• Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014 AI翻译
  作者：Leibniz Association; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; IZA Institute Labor Economics
  摘要：This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from industrialization to the present. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after WWI and during the hyperinflation years of the 1920s, then increased rapidly throughout the Nazi period beginning in the 1930s. Following the end of WWII, German top income shares returned to 1920s levels. The German pattern stands in contrast to developments in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, w...
• The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain. AI翻译
  作者：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park