作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
作者：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Iowa
摘要：Critics who doubt the sources and meaning of some four inches of catch-up growth claim that market-based distortions created by slave traders biased measured heights of children and adolescents. Here we analyze this possible bias using a new database of all slave manifests available at the National Archives. Employing procedures to match names of shippers with known or suspected professional traders, we find that biases in height by age due to trader selectivity were negligible relative to the...
作者：University of Stirling; Queens University Belfast; Queens University Belfast; University of West England
摘要：Scholars have long debated whether ownership matters for firm performance. The standard view regarding Victorian Britain is that family-controlled companies had a detrimental effect on performance. In this article, we examine this view using a hand-collected corporate ownership dataset. Our main finding is that it was not necessarily the broad structure of corporate ownership that mattered for performance, but whether family blockholders had a governance role. Large active blockholders tended ...
作者：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Richmond
作者：Samford University; Samford University
