2007

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• Not on my farm! Resistance to bovine tuberculosis eradication in the United States AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Arizona
  摘要：The active opposition to technical change has frequently impeded economic growth. This article examines the widespread resistance to government-led campaigns to use new tuberculin testing technologies to eradicate bovine tuberculosis in the United States. We explore three issues: the political economy of opposition; the role of earlier scientific controversies in the discourse; and the techniques used by the opponents. Over time, the protests shifted from challenging the scientific merits of t...
• New Orleans on parade: Tourism and the transformation of the Crescent City. AI翻译
  作者：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
• The private rights of organizations: The tangled roots of Laissez faire and the right to privacy AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• The economic aftermath of the 1960s riots in American cities: Evidence from property values AI翻译
  作者：Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Boston University
  摘要：In the 1960s many American cities experienced violent, race-related civil disturbances. This article examines census data from 1950 to 1980 to measure the riots' impact on the value of central-city residential property, and especially on black-owned property. Both OLS and IV estimates indicate that the riots depressed the median value of black-owned property between 1960 and 1970, with little or no rebound in the 1970s. Census tract data for a small number of cities suggest relative losses of ...
• The burden of early exposure to malaria in the United States, 1850-1860: Malnutrition and immune disorders AI翻译
  作者：University of Chicago
  摘要：This article uses nineteenth-century evidence to calculate the impact of early exposure to malaria-ridden environments on nutritional status and the immune system in America. I estimate the risk of contracting malarial fevers in the 1850s by using correlations between malaria and environmental factors such as climate and geographical features. The study demonstrates that Union Army recruits who spent their early years in malaria-endemic counties were 1.1 inches shorter at enlistment due to mal...
• Labor's home front: The American federation of labor during World War II. AI翻译
  作者：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Convergence or decline on Europe's southeastern periphery? Agriculture, population, and GNP in Bulgaria, 1892-1945 AI翻译
  作者：Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; University of Cambridge
  摘要：The literature currently offers no consistent narrative about economic development on Europe's southeastern periphery prior to 1945. Did per capita GNP in the Balkans converge with the rest of Europe? We present new GNP estimates for Bulgaria for 1892-1911 and link these with a new degree of precision to the data available for the 1920s. Our data reveal stagnation in per capita GNP from 1879 to the 1930s. But within agriculture we find evidence for a new phase of intensification from the 1920s...
• Related lending and economic performance: Evidence from Mexico AI翻译
  作者：Maurer, Noel; Haber, Stephen
  摘要：Related lending, a widespread practice in LDCs, is widely held to encourage bankers to loot their banks at the expense of minority shareholders and depositors. We argue that neither looting nor credit misallocation are necessary outcomes of related lending. On the contrary, related lending often exists as a response to high information and contract-enforcement costs. Whether it encourages looting depends on other institutions, particularly those that create incentives to monitor directors. We ...
• Health and economics burden of malaria in nineteenth-century America AI翻译
  作者：University of Chicago
• The new suburban history. AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles