作者：California State University System; California State University Northridge
作者：University System of Ohio; Miami University
作者：University System of Ohio; University of Akron
作者：Stanford University
摘要：Witnesses' accounts are used to analyze changes in working hours between 1750 and 1800. Two findings stand out. The article demonstrates that the information contained in witnesses' accounts allows us to reconstruct historical time-budgets and provides extensive tests of the new method. Estimates of annual labor input in 1749/63 and 1799/1803 are presented. It emerges that the number of annual working hours changed rapidly between the middle and the end of the eighteenth century. These finding...
作者：Yeungnam University
摘要：Japan vigorously enforced wide-ranging developmental policies in colonial Korea, including a green revolution and an industrialization drive. Why did then colonial per capita food availability decline? Simulations using a dynamic general equilibrium model indicate that tax raises, which financed expanding public investment, did not lower, but raised consumption levels over time by accelerating accumulation. Food consumption fell because these policy efforts were inadequate to defeat population...
作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
作者：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - St. Louis
