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作者：University of Helsinki
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作者：University System of Ohio; Miami University
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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Arizona; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：To isolate the impact of access to electricity on local economies, we examine the impact of the Rural Electrification Administration low-interest loans in the 1930s. The REA provided loans to cooperatives to lay distribution lines to farms and aid in wiring homes. Consequently, the number of rural farm homes electrified doubled in the United States within five years. We develop a panel data set for the 1930s and use changes within counties over time to identify the effect of the REA loans on a...
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作者：Santa Clara University
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作者：Vanderbilt University; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
摘要：We construct datasets of linked census records to study internal migrants' selection and destination choices during the first decades of the Great Migration (1910-1930). We study both whites and blacks and intra- and inter-regional migration. While there is some evidence of positive selection, the degree of selection was small and participation in migration was widespread. Differences in background, including initial location, cannot account for racial differences in destination choices. Black...
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作者：Yale University; University of Mannheim
摘要：Germany introduced compulsory industrial accident insurance in 1884. The accident-insurance system compensated injured workers and survivors for losses, but initially failed to limit the growth of accident rates. We trace this failure to the 1884 law's faulty incentives and to an initial unwillingness to use the tools built into the law. The government regulator increasingly stressed rules that forced firms to adopt specific safety-enhancing innovations and practices. Econometric analysis show...
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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...
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作者：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
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作者：Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research
