作者：Arora, S
摘要：This article investigates the influence of health on the growth paths often industrialized countries over the course of 100 to 125 years. Changes in health increased their pace of growth by 30 to 40 percent, altering permanently the slope of their growth paths. This finding is robust across five measures of long-term health and it remains largely unchanged when controlled for investment in physical capital. Health-related variables correlate positively with years of schooling. However, schooli...
作者：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
作者：Dartmouth College; National Bureau of Economic Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Recent research has suggested that the U.S. cotton-textile industry would have been wiped out had it not received tariff protection throughout the antebellum period. We reaffirm Taussig's earlier judgment that the U.S. cotton-textile industry was largely independent of the tariff by the early 1830s. American and British producers specialized in quite different types of textile products that were imperfect substitutes for one another. Using data from 1826 to 1860, we estimate the responsiveness...
