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• Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools: Fighting for literacy in America AI翻译
  作者：Vanderbilt University
• The economy of early America: Historical perspectives and new directions AI翻译
  作者：University of North Dakota Grand Forks
• Planting a capitalist South: Masters, merchants, and manufacturers in the southern interior, 1790-1860 AI翻译
  作者：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• Exceptionalism and industrialization: Britain and its European rivals, 1688-1815 AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
• The wage gains of African-American women in the 1940s AI翻译
  作者：Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：The 1940s marked a turning point in the labor market outcomes of African-American women. They experienced large wage gains relative to white women, sharp declines in agricultural and domestic service work, and significant increases in formal sector employment. Using a semiparametric decomposition technique, we assess the influence of changes in productive and personal characteristics, in workers' distribution across occupations and locations, and in the wage structure on both black women's abs...
• Global capitalism: Its fall and rise in the twentieth century AI翻译
  作者：Santa Clara University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• The natural origins of economics AI翻译
  作者：Vanderbilt University
• Time is money: A re-assessment of the passenger social savings from Victorian British Railways AI翻译
  作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
  摘要：This article assesses train speeds in England and Wales 1843-1912. Trains were fast compared with coaches or walking, and the social saving of time saved grew over time to become over 10 percent of national income in 1912. Including fare savings as well, social savings were 14 percent of national income in 1912, with consumer surplus of 6 percent. Time savings dominated fare savings once railways became a new good: travel for the masses. Using the social savings-total factor productivity ident...
• Rethinking the Jacksonian economy: The impact of the 1832 bank veto on commercial banking AI翻译
  作者：University of Vermont
  摘要：Revisiting an old debate between traditional historians and New economic historians about the short-run monetary effects of President Jackson's war on the Second Bank, I offer new arguments for the traditionalists. I develop a framework accounting for growth in commercial bank credit based on the investment club characteristics of antebellum state-chartered banking and apply it to state bank balance sheet data for 1830-1836. The removal of the Second Bank indeed magnified the boom in commercia...
• Who should govern congress? Access to power and the salary grab of 1873 AI翻译
  作者：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; National Bureau of Economic Research; Northwestern University; Allegheny College
  摘要：We examine the politics of the Salary Grab of 1873, legislation that increased congressional salaries retroactively by 50 percent. A group of New England and Midwestern elites opposed the Salary Grab, along with congressional franking and patronage-based civil service appointments, as part of a reform effort to reshape who should govern Congress. Our analyses of congressional voting confirm the existence of this nonparty elite coalition. Although these elites lost many legislative battles in t...