2015

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• Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind. AI翻译
  作者：University of Pennsylvania
• Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia AI翻译
  作者：Wright, Robert E.
• From the Field to the Classroom: The Boll Weevil's Impact on Education in Rural Georgia AI翻译
  作者：College of New Jersey
  摘要：I examine how production of a child labor-intensive crop (cotton) affected schooling in the early twentieth-century American South. Because cotton production may be endogenous, presence of an agricultural pest (the boll weevil) is employed as an instrument. Using newly collected county-level data for Georgia, I find a 10 percent reduction in cotton caused a 2 percent increase in black enrollment rate, but had little effect on white enrollment. The shift away from cotton following the boll weev...
• The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England: Nuisance Law versus Economic Efficiency AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
• The Economic and Social History of Brazil since 1889 AI翻译
  作者：Stanford University
• The Evolution of Bank Supervisory Institutions: Evidence from American States AI翻译
  作者：Santa Clara University; Colgate University
  摘要：We use a novel data set spanning 1820-1910 to assess the factors leading to the creation of formal bank supervisory institutions across American states. We show that it took more than a century for all states to create separate agencies tasked with monitoring the safety and soundness of banks. State legislatures initially pursued cheaper regulatory alternatives, such as double liability laws; however, banking distress at the state level as well as the structural shift from note-issuing to depo...
• The Transformation of Hunger Revisited: Estimating Available Calories from the Budgets of Late Nineteenth-Century British Households AI翻译
  作者：University of Sussex; University of Sussex; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
  摘要：Levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the late nineteenth century have been much debated. Trevon Logan (2006, 2009) estimated a very low average level of available calories. This paper re-examines the data and finds average levels of available calories much more in line with existing studies, more in line with what is known about energy requirements, and more in line with other aspects of the data. In sum, British households were likely to have been significantly better fed ...
• An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe: Economic Regimes from Laissez-Faire to Globalization AI翻译
  作者：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Burma's Economy in the Twentieth Century AI翻译
  作者：Williams College
• The History of Bankruptcy: Economic, Social and Cultural Implications in Early Modern Europe. AI翻译
  作者：Northwestern University