作者：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Boston; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
作者：Duke University
摘要：This article tests the importance of human capital in explaining convergence across the states from 1880 to 1950. Human capital matters to a state's income level and to its growth rate through technological diffusion. The South, whose overwhelmingly agricultural society relied more heavily on work experience than formal education, and whose racial discrimination in school resource allocation lowered human capital accumulation of both blacks and whites, presents a unique pattern. The South's lo...
作者：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
作者：Stockholm School of Economics; University of Zurich
作者：Northwestern University; Stanford University
作者：Brunt, L
摘要：This article presents the first agricultural production function for the eighteenth century, thereby quantifying the effect of many new technologies coming on stream in English agriculture. It shows that some traditional technologies were effective in raising wheat yields, such as drainage and marling; but some innovations of the eighteenth century were much more effective, particularly turnips and seed drills. Environmental factors are incorporated into the model. Climate is shown to be a cru...
