2007

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• Corporate ownership and governances in the early nineteenth century AI翻译
  作者：Wellesley College
• Wait a cotton pickin minute! A new view of slave productivity AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• Globalization, immigration, and Lewisian elastic labor in pre-World War II Southeast Asia AI翻译
  作者：University of Glasgow
  摘要：Between 1880 and 1939 Burma, Malaya, and Thailand received inflows of migrants from India and China comparable in size to European immigration in the New World. This article examines the forces that lay behind migration to Southeast Asia and asks if experience there bears out Lewis's unlimited labor supply hypothesis. We find that it does and, furthermore, that immigration created a highly integrated labor market stretching from South India to Southeastern China. Emigration from India and Chin...
• Learning by dying: Combat performance in the age of sail AI翻译
  作者：Clemson University
  摘要：Between 1660 and 1815 the combat fatality rate among British navy captains fell by 98 percent, even as the combat success of the British Navy rose dramatically. Both developments can be explained as a result of learning by doing among British commanders. This learning was importantly driven by the extensive wartime experience accumulated over this period, combined with the unparalleled financial incentives for combat success offered to British commanders.
• The challenge of affluence: Self-control and well-being in the United States and Great Britain since 1950 AI翻译
  作者：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
• The significance of the frontier[s] in American [economic] history AI翻译
  作者：Northwestern University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• Accomplishment and abandonment: The freemen's bureau and black literacy rates AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Irvine
• An economic interpretation of the constitutional convention of 1787 revisited AI翻译
  作者：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
  摘要：Empirical studies of delegate voting at the Constitutional Convention have relied on the same 16 roll call votes. This article re-examines various assumptions used in the collection of these data. We first create a baseline regression. We then consider the effect of dropping delegates not in attendance, re-inferring the votes from primary sources, examining various subsamples of the roll calls, and reconstructing constituency variables to include state districts. Our findings suggest that pers...
• Institutional innovation and the creation of liquid financial markets: The case of the American over-the-counter market AI翻译
  作者：Macalester College
• The assignment of property rights on the western frontier: Lessons for contemporary environmental and resource policy AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：I examine the assignment of private property rights during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to five natural resources on federal lands in the Far West. Assigning property rights required adaptation from established, eastern practices. The resulting property rights and their long-term welfare effects inform over-fishing, excessive air pollution, and other natural resource and environmental problems. Allocations based on local conditions, prior use, and unconstrained by outside gover...