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• The not so wild, wild west: Property rights on the frontier AI翻译
  作者：Northwestern University
• Water, race, and disease. AI翻译
  作者：Vanderbilt University
• The forces of economic growth: A time series perspective. AI翻译
  作者：Vanderbilt University
• The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the struggle for the modern American economy, 1900-1940 AI翻译
  作者：George Mason University
• The emergence of modern marketing. AI翻译
  作者：University of British Columbia
• Jewish occupational selection: Education, restrictions, or minorities? AI翻译
  作者：Boston University; University of Turin; Tel Aviv University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis
  摘要：Before the eighth-ninth centuries CE, most Jews, like the rest of the population, were farmers. With the establishment of the Muslim Empire, almost all Jews entered urban occupations despite no restrictions prohibiting them from remaining in agriculture. This occupational selection remained their distinctive mark thereafter. Our thesis is that this transition away from agriculture into crafts and trade was the outcome of their widespread literacy prompted by a religious and educational reform ...
• Texas, cotton, and the new deal. AI翻译
  作者：University System of Ohio; Baldwin Wallace University
• The transitionftom sail to steam in immigration to the United States AI翻译
  作者：Illinois State University
  摘要：The transition from sailing ship to steamship is analyzed for European immigrants arriving at New York City. Based on information taken from the U.S. Passenger Lists, new estimates of the timing and length of the transition are provided. Though the accepted model suggests the changeover from sail to steam could occur in only a few years, it actually took about 15 years in the Europe to New York immigrant trade. The slow transition is found to be due to slow construction of new steamships given...
• Race, liberalism, and economics AI翻译
  作者：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
• Did New Deal grant programs stimulate local economies? A study of federal grants and retail sales during the great depression AI翻译
  作者：University of Arizona; National Bureau of Economic Research; Syracuse University; University of California System; University of California Merced; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：Using data on New Deal grants to each U.S. county from 1933 to 1939, we estimate how relief and public works spending and payments to farmers through the Agricultural Adjustment Administration influenced retail consumption. On a per capita basis, we find that an additional dollar of public works and relief spending was associated with a 44 cent increase in 1939 retail sales. In contrast, the AAA seems to have had a negative effect on retail sales, suggesting that nonlandowners in the farm sect...