Journal of Economic History

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• Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited AI翻译
  作者：Sussman, Nathan
  摘要：A novel series of interest rates paid by the Corporation of London shows that interest rates in London declined by 350 basis points during the seventeenth century. The decline followed a similar pattern in Europe. Records from the Corporation's archive provide evidence for financial development: an increase in the number and volume of debt instruments, an increase in the number of lenders, and the development of a secondary market. Econometric analysis establishes that increasing the debt inst...
• Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales AI翻译
  作者：New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi
  摘要：This paper investigates whether high borrowing costs deterred investment in sanitation infrastructure in late nineteenth-century Britain. Town Councils had to borrow to fund investment, with considerable variation in interest rates across towns and over time. Panel regressions, using annual data from more than 800 town councils, indicate that higher interest rates were associated with lower levels of infrastructure investment between 1887 and 1903. Instrumental variable regressions show that f...
• Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Abrogation of the Bracero Program in 1964 AI翻译
  作者：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610-1890 AI翻译
  作者：Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole
  摘要：I use new evidence from servant contracts, 1610-1890, to estimate male farm wages and the length of the work year in Japan. I show Japanese laborers were surprisingly poor and could only sustain 2-3 adults relative to 7 adults for the English. Japanese wages were the lowest among pre-industrial societies and this was driven by Malthusian population pressures. I also estimate the work year and find peasants worked 325 days a year by 1700, predating the industrious revolution in Europe. The find...
• World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation AI翻译
  作者：University of Melbourne
• The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking AI翻译
  作者：University of Konstanz; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Humboldt University of Berlin
  摘要：This paper documents the persistence of Southern slave owners in political power after the American Civil War. Using data from Texas, we show that former slave owners made up more than half of all state legislators until the late 1890s. Legislators with slave-owning backgrounds were more likely to be Democrats and voted more conservatively even conditional on party membership. A county's propensity to elect former slave owners was positively correlated with cotton production, but negatively wi...
• Mechanization Takes Command?: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing AI翻译
  作者：Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Boston University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
  摘要：During the nineteenth century, U.S. manufacturers shifted away from the hand labor mode of production, characteristic of artisan shops, to machine labor, which was increasingly concentrated in steam-powered factories. This transition fundamentally changed production tasks, jobs, and job requirements. This paper uses digitized data on these two production modes from an 1899 U.S. Commissioner of Labor report to estimate the frequency and impact of the use of inanimate power on production operati...
• Spanish Missions and Their Impact on Native Americans in the Southwest and California AI翻译
  作者：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University System Of New Hampshire; Keene State College; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
• American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D AI翻译
  作者：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore County
• The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum-Wage Legislation AI翻译
  作者：University of Nottingham