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作者：Seoul National University (SNU)
摘要：This article explores how injuries, sickness, and the geographic mobility of Union Army veterans while in service affected their postservice migrations. Wartime wounds and illnesses significantly diminished the geographic mobility of veterans after the war. Geographic moves while carrying out military missions had strong positive effects on their postservice geographic mobility. Geographic moves while in service also influenced the choice of destination among the migrants. I discuss some impli...
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作者：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research
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作者：Santa Clara University
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作者：University of Pennsylvania
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作者：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; San Pablo CEU University
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作者：California State University System; California State University Fullerton
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作者：Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Gold discoveries in 1848 set off a large and extremely rapid migration to California. This article uses newly collected data from the 1850 and 1852 Censuses of Population together with the public use sample of the 1850 Census Of Population to examine who went to California and how they did economically. We find that the propensity to migrate was affected by the individual's age and literacy, distance of the state from California, and average state latitude. Consistent with the historical liter...
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作者：Harvard University
摘要：The Panama Canal was one of the largest public investments of its time. In the first decade of its operation, the canal produced significant social returns for the United States. Most of these returns were due to the transportation of petroleum from California to the East Coast. The United States also succeeded in leveraging the threat of military force to obtain a much better deal from the Panamanian government than it could have negotiated otherwise.
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作者：Yale University
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作者：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
