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• Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor AI翻译
  作者：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
  摘要：Although recent studies on African colonial tax systems have deepened our understanding of early fiscal capacity building efforts in the region, they have largely ignored the contributions from a widely used but invisible source of state revenue: that of labor contributions. Exploiting data on corvee systems in French Africa, this is the first article to make these in-kind taxes visible by estimating a lower bound of how much they augmented governments' revenue base. Revealing that labor taxes...
• Voting Behavior and Public Employment in Nazi Germany AI翻译
  作者：University of Konstanz
  摘要：This article analyzes whether the German National Socialists used economic policies to reward their voters after coming to power in 1933. Using newly-collected data on public employment from the German censuses in 1925, 1933, and 1939 and addressing the potential endogeneity of the NSDAP vote share in 1933 by way of an instrumental variables strategy based on a similar party in Imperial Germany, I find that cities with higher NSDAP vote shares experienced a relative increase in public employme...
• Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization AI翻译
  作者：Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen
• Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic AI翻译
  作者：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Atlanta; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
• Infant Health, Women's Fertility, and Rural Electrification in the United States, 1930-1960 AI翻译
  作者：Universite de Montreal
  摘要：From 1930 to 1960 rural communities, mainly in the U.S. South and Southwest, gained access to electricity. In addition to lights, the benefits included easier clothes washing, refrigeration, and pumped water. This article uses differences in the timing of electricity access across rural counties to study the effects on infant mortality and fertility. Rural electrification led to substantial reductions in infant mortality but had little effect on women's fertility. The increase in electricity a...
• Respectable Banking: The Search for Stability in London's Money and Credit Markets since 1695 AI翻译
  作者：University of London
• Tracing the Evolution of Agglomeration Economies: Spain, 1860-1991 AI翻译
  作者：Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU); University of Valencia
  摘要：Using district population in Spain between 1860 and 1991, recorded approximately every decade, this article examines whether initial population affects subsequent population growth. While such a relationship between these two variables hardly existed during the second half of the nineteenth century, this link increased significantly between 1910 and 1970, although this trend was abruptly interrupted by the Civil War and the autarkic period that followed. The intensity of this relationship decr...
• 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, ...
• A Century of Wealth in America AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Riverside
• The Dust Was Long in Settling: Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl AI翻译
  作者：University of Essex
  摘要：I find that childhood exposure to the Dust Bowl, an environmental shock to health and income, adversely impacted later-life human capital-especially when exposure was in utero-increasing poverty and disability rates, and decreasing fertility and college completion rates. The event's devastation of agriculture, however, had the beneficial effect of increasing high school completion, likely by pushing children who otherwise might have worked on the farm into secondary schooling. Lastly, New Deal...