作者：University of Reading; University of Iowa
摘要：Automobile manufacture is generally regarded as the paradigmatic mass production industry, with large plants able to exploit scale economies. We argue that the radio industry also sheds important light on evolving production technology and determinants of competitive success in inter-war manufacturing. Timothy F. Bresnahan and Daniel M.G. Raff (1991) showed that productivity differences resulting from scale in the auto industry translated into differences in exit rates during the Depression. W...
作者：University of California System; University of California Davis; Tulane University; Vanderbilt University
作者：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
作者：Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research
作者：University of Toronto
摘要：To what extent do rising income levels explain the decline in adult mortality rates experienced in the United States a centuay ago? I explore this question by investigating the income effect of the country's first wide-scale entitlement program: the Union Army pensions. Documenting that Republican Congressional candidates boosted pensions to secure votes, I exploit exogenous increases in income stemming from patronage politics to estimate the semi-elasticity of disease onset with respect to pe...
作者：George Mason University
