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作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
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作者：University Hohenheim; University Hohenheim
摘要：We approach the issue of the economic effects of democracy by examining which expectations investors held about the effect of democratization in the Kingdom of Saxony in 1896 and 1909. We do this by linking their investment behavior on the Berlin Stock Exchange to political events in Saxony. Here the electoral law was changed twice: In 1896 a very restrictive franchise was introduced, which was abolished in 1909 and replaced by a more democratic electoral law. Our study reveals that the Berlin...
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作者：California Institute of Technology; University of Cambridge
摘要：This article scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. Multivariate analysis of 4,705 demographic observations, covering women's marriage age, female lifetime celibacy, and household complexity in 39 European countries, shows that the most extreme manifestations of the EMP were associated with economic stagnation rather than growth. There is no evidence that the EMP improved economic performance by empowering women, increasing hu...
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作者：University of Arizona
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作者：American University
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作者：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
摘要：Theories of the demographic transition often center on the rising price of children. A model of fertility derived from household production in the antebellum United States contains both own children and slaves as inputs. Changes in slaveholdings beget changes in the marginal product of the slaveowners' own children and, hence, their price. I use panel data on slaveowning households between 1850 and 1870 to measure the slaveowners' own fertility responses to exogenous changes in slaveholdings. ...
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作者：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
