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作者：Northwestern University; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
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作者：IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
摘要：Old Regime polities typically suffered from fiscal fragmentation and absolutist rule. By the start of World War 1, however, many such countries had centralized institutions and limited government. This article uses a new panel data set to perform a statistical analysis of political regimes and public revenues in Europe from 1650 to 1913. Panel regressions indicate that centralized and limited regimes were associated with significantly higher revenues than fragmented and absolutist ones. Struct...
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作者：Stewart, James I.
摘要：Historians disagree about whether geographic mobility on the frontier reflected economic hardship or opportunity because of the inability to observe the outcomes of non-persisters. This article uses a new sample of frontier families linked between the 1860, 1870, and 1880 U.S. Censuses to study mobility and wealth accumulation. Using the incidence of Confederate guerilla warfare in frontier counties to generate exogenous migration, I find the effect of persistence on wealth accumulation is ins...
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作者：University of Leeds
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作者：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：Between 1850 and 2000 Spain's real output and labor productivity grew at average rates of 2.5 and 2.1 percent. The sources of this long-run growth are investigated here for the first time. Broad capital accumulation and efficiency-term growth. Factor accumulation gains appear as complementary in Spain's long dominated long-run growth up to 1950, while total factor productivity (TFP) led thereafter and, especially, during periods of growth acceleration. The main spurts in TFP and capital coinci...
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作者：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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作者：University System of Ohio; University of Toledo
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作者：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
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作者：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
