作者：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
作者：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Cornell University
摘要：Production functions for sugar in four major sugar-producing zones in Cultivation-System Java (1840 through 1870) are estimated using colonial data. The estimates are analyzed for evidence of structural change in the years ii om 1848 to 1851. The results confirm. that the colonial reforms of those years were accompanied by significant changes in sugar production: the results are also consistent with the thesis of agricultural involution in Java. There is strong evidence for technological chang...
作者：Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
摘要：This article uses 1937 and 1940 Census data to estimate the effect that hiring an additional relief worker in a county had on unemployment statistics for that county. The fundamental estimation problem arises because one cannot easily control for economic conditions that influenced both the number of individuals holding relief jobs and the number counted as jobless. To solve the problem, electoral data are used as instrumental variables. The econometric results suggest that additional relief h...
作者：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
作者：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
