作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This article contributes to the debate on relative levels of living in the early modem world by estimating the income and probable range of income growth in Bengal before European colonization. The exercise yields two conclusions, (a) average income in Bengal was significantly smaller than that in contemporary Western Europe, and (b) there is insufficient basis to infer either growth or decline in average income in the eighteenth century.
作者：Stanford University
摘要：We construct an individual-level data set of partnership contracts in late-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro to study the determinants of contract terms. Partners with limited liability contributed more capital and received lower draws for private expenses and lower profit shares than their unlimited partners. Unlimited partners in turn received higher-powered incentives when they contracted with limited partners than when they contracted with unlimited partners. A reform that changed the rela...
作者：Universite de Montreal; University of California System; University of California Davis
作者：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Lowell
作者：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research
