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作者：University of Ulsan
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作者：University of Kansas
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作者：University of British Columbia
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作者：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：When private incentives are insufficient, a big push by government may lead to industrialization. This article uses mobilization for WWII to test the big push hypothesis in the context of postwar industrialization in the American South. Specifically, I investigate the role of capital deepening at the county level using newly assembled data on the location and value of wartime investment. Despite a boom in manufacturing activity during the war, the evidence is not consistent with differential p...
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作者：University of Wollongong; University of Wollongong; University of Wollongong
摘要：Outside of the United States, few studies have estimated the effects of World War II service. In Australia, general war-time conscription and minimal involvement in the Korean War led to large cohort differences in military service rates, which we use for identification. We find a small, temporary negative effect on employment and a substantial positive effect on post-school qualifications, but not at the university level. While service increased home ownership slightly, it greatly reduced out...
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作者：Rice University
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作者：University of Vermont
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作者：Harvard University
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作者：Queens University Belfast; Queens University Belfast; University of Manchester; University of Manchester; University of Gothenburg
摘要：In this article, we study the emergence of an extractive institution that hampered economic development in Italy for more than a century: the Sicilian mafia. Since its first appearance in the late 1800s, the reasons behind the rise of the Sicilian mafia have remained a puzzle. In this article, we argue that the mafia arose as a response to an exogenous shock in the demand for oranges and lemons, following Lind's discovery in the late eighteenth century that citrus fruits cured scurvy. More spe...
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作者：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
