作者：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
作者：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis
摘要：This article describes a newly constructed data set of all U.S. state banks from 1782 to 1861. It contains the names and locations of all banks and branches that went into business and an estimate of when each operated. The compilation is based on reported balance sheets, listings in banknote reporters, and secondary sources. Based on these data, the article presents a count of the number of banks and branches in business by state. I argue that my series are superior to previously existing one...
作者：University of California System; University of California Irvine
作者：Stanford University; Tilburg University; Tilburg University
摘要：When contracting, European merchants could at least partially observe characteristics such as the health, physical strength, and education of indentured servants. These characteristics, unobservable to us, were likely to influence servitude duration, which is observable to us. We employ a switching regression model to analyze 2,066 servitude contracts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Servants were positively selected to American mainland colonies in terms of their unobservable hu...
作者：Minnesota State Colleges & Universities; Metropolitan State University
