作者：University of California System; University of California Riverside; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research
作者：Harvard University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
作者：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University System of Ohio; Miami University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Enacted in 1922 and repealed in 1929, the Sheppard-Towner program gave federal matching money to states to provide public health education to mothers. We examine variation in state participation in the program, and find that the timing of women's suffrage had an important impact. However, we find that the effect of suffrage was short-lived and did not influence public health spending after the program's repeal. We also find no evidence of a demonstration effect. On average, the states that con...
作者：University of Cambridge
摘要：The less-developed interior of early modern Europe, especially the rural economy, is often regarded as financially comatose. This article investigates this view using a rich data set of marriage and death inventories for seventeenth-century Germany. It first analyzes the characteristics of debts, examining borrowing purposes, familial links, communal ties, and documentary instruments. It then explores how borrowing varied with gender, age, marital status, occupation, date, and asset portfolio....
