2017

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• Start-up Nation? Slave Wealth and Entrepreneurship in Civil War Maryland AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Columbia University
  摘要：Slave property rights yielded a source of collateral as well as a coerced labor force. Using data from Dun and Bradstreet linked to the 1860 census and slave schedules in Maryland, we find that slaveowners were more likely to start businesses prior to the uncompensated 1864 emancipation, even conditional on total wealth and human capital, and this advantage disappears after emancipation. We assess a number of potential explanations, and find suggestive evidence that this is due to the superior...
• The Age of Gunpowder, China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History AI翻译
  作者：University of Vienna
• Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science AI翻译
  作者：Durham University
• The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World AI翻译
  作者：Harvard University
• The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry AI翻译
  作者：Tulane University
• Publishing Nations: Technology Acquisition and Language Standardization for European Ethnic Groups AI翻译
  作者：University of Tokyo
  摘要：This article examines the causes and variation of language standardization across European ethnic groups from a historical perspective. Although language has long garnered interest in the study of ethnicity and nationalism, how language becomes standardized has yet to be offered. In this article, I argue that the acquisition of the printing press is critical to explaining the occurrence and variation of standardization. Using the first publication of vernacular dictionaries as a proxy for stan...
• A History of Financial Crises: Dreams and Follies of Expectations AI翻译
  作者：Wellesley College
• Common Tongue: The Impact of Language on Educational Outcomes AI翻译
  作者：Indian School of Business (ISB)
  摘要：This article investigates the impact of official language policies on education using state formation in India. Colonial provinces consisted of some districts where the official language matched the district's language and some where it did not. Linguistically mismatched districts have 18.0 percent lower literacy rates and 20.1 percent lower college graduation rates, driven by difficulty in acquiring education due to a different medium of instruction in schools. Educational achievement caught ...
• Marketing and Pricing Risk in Marine Insurance in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp AI翻译
  作者：University of Antwerp; University of Antwerp
  摘要：Drawing on a set of insurance contracts brokered in Antwerp in 1562-1563, we demonstrate that by that time Antwerp hosted a sophisticated, large, and international market for marine insurance in which small and large traders could acquire and sell insurance, backed by the intermediation of a large broker, Juan Henriquez who functioned as an open-access institution. Using information from Henriquez's ledgers which was also available to underwriters, we find that insurance premiums reflected the...
• The (South) American Dream: Mobility and Economic Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Argentina AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
  摘要：I study the mobility and economic outcomes of European immigrants and their children in nineteenth-century Argentina, the second largest destination country during the Age of Mass Migration. I use new data linking males across censuses and passenger lists of arrivals to Buenos Aires. First-generation immigrants experienced faster occupational upgrading than natives. Occupational mobility was substantial relative to Europe; immigrants holding unskilled occupations upon arrival experienced high ...