2018

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• On the Road to Heaven: Taxation, Conversions, and the Coptic-Muslim Socioeconomic Gap in Medieval Egypt AI翻译
  作者：Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics
  摘要：Self-selection of converts is an under-studied explanation of inter-religion socioeconomic status (SES) differences. Inspired by this conjecture, I trace the Coptic-Muslim SES gap in Egypt to self-selection-on-SES during Egypt's conversion from Coptic Christianity to Islam. Selection was driven by a poll tax on non-Muslims, imposed from 641 until 1856, which induced poorer Copts to convert to Islam leading Copts to shrink into a better-off minority. Using novel data sources, I document that hi...
• Holy Wars? Temple Desecrations in Medieval India AI翻译
  作者：University of Cambridge; Azim Premji Foundation; Azim Premji University Bengaluru
• Drivers of Fragmented Production Chains: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century AI翻译
  作者：Columbia University; Harvard University
• The Impact of Institutions on Innovation AI翻译
  作者：University of Mannheim; University of London; London Business School
• Big Data in Economic History AI翻译
  作者：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  摘要：Big data is an exciting prospect for the field of economic history, which has long depended on the acquisition, keying, and cleaning of scarce numerical information about the past. This article examines two areas in which economic historians are already using big data - population and environment - discussing ways in which increased frequency of observation, denser samples, and smaller geographic units allow us to analyze the past with greater precision and often to track individuals, places, ...
• Here Has All the Education Gone: The Free-Fall of Skill-Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, c. 1860-2010 AI翻译
  作者：Wageningen University & Research; Northwestern University
• Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany AI翻译
  作者：University of Bristol
• The Impact of World War II on the Demand for Female Workers in Manufacturing AI翻译
  作者：Facebook Inc; University of Arizona
  摘要：Most studies of female workers in the 1940s focus on labor supply. We use the basics of supply and demand to measure the impact of WWII on the short- and medium-run demand for female workers in manufacturing. Demand rose for both salaried and production female workers during the war and then fell after the war. However, the post-war demands for both groups were substantially higher than before the war and higher than the levels that would have been reached had the demands followed a counterfac...
• Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic AI翻译
  作者：Carnegie Mellon University; Universite de Montreal
  摘要：The 1918 Influenza Pandemic killed millions worldwide and hundreds of thousands in the United States. This article studies the impact of air pollution on pandemic mortality. The analysis combines a panel dataset on infant and all-age mortality with a novel measure of air pollution based on the burning of coal in a large sample of U.S. cities. We estimate that air pollution contributed significantly to pandemic mortality. Cities that used more coal experienced tens of thousands of excess deaths...
• Gold and Trade: An Empirical Simulation Approach AI翻译
  作者：University of Oxford; University of Adelaide