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• Institutions and the path to the modern economy: Lessons from medieval trade. AI翻译
  作者：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• Institutional reforms, financial development and sovereign debt: Britain 1690-1790 AI翻译
  作者：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  摘要：We revisit the evidence on the relations between institutions, the cost of government debt, and financial development in Britain (1690-1790) and find that interest rates remained high and volatile for four decades after the Glorious Revolution, partly due to wars and instability; British interest rates co-moved with those in Holland; Debt per capita remained lower in Britain than in Holland until around 1780; and Britain did not borrow at lower rates than European countries with more limited p...
• Historical statistics of the United States: Millennial edition. AI翻译
  作者：Vanderbilt University
• Migration and human capital: Self-selection of indentured servants to the Americas AI翻译
  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...
• Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the growth of high tech, 1930-1970. AI翻译
  作者：Minnesota State Colleges & Universities; Metropolitan State University
• The economics of World War I. AI翻译
  作者：Voth, Hans-Joachim
• Building New Deal liberalism: The political economy of public works, 1933-1956. AI翻译
  作者：Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
• The global economy in the 1990s: A long-run perspective. AI翻译
  作者：Wellesley College
• The socioeconomic return to primary schooling in Victorian England AI翻译
  作者：Colby College
  摘要：In this article I provide a micro-level analysis of primary schooling in Victorian England. Using a new dataset of school-age males linked between the 1851 and 1881 population censuses, I examine the determinants of childhood school attendance and the impact of attendance on adult labor market outcomes. I find that schooling had a positive effect on adult occupational class and that the associated wage gains were likely to have outweighed the cost of schooling. However, this effect was small r...
• Slave prices, the African slave trade, and productivity in eighteenth-century South Carolina: A reassessment AI翻译
  作者：Emory University; Queens University - Canada; University of Hull