作者：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
作者：University of Delaware
摘要：Convicts account for at least one-quarter of British migration to mid-eighteenth-century America. Their transportation to and disposal in America was essentially an experiment in privatizing post-trial criminal justice, A model of this trade is developed that yields testable implicational regarding the relative distributional moments of convict auction prices, the size: of shipper profits, and how convicts were selected for transportation. Quantitative evidence is assembled to test, these impl...
作者：Northwestern University; Northwestern University
摘要：It is widely agreed that the burden of housework in the industrialized West did not decrease as much as might be expected since 1880, and may have actually increased for long periods. The article proposes anew explanation: that increases in knowledge on the causes and transmission mechanisms of infectious diseases persuaded women that household members' health depended on the amount of housework carried out. The article traces the origin of this knowledge in the scientific developments of the ...
作者：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; National Bureau of Economic Research
