Journal of Economic History

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• The pity of peace: The German economy at war, 1914-1918 and beyond AI翻译
  作者：Humboldt University of Berlin
• Economic transformations: General purpose technologies and long-term economic growth. AI翻译
  作者：Northwestern University
• The wage gains of African-American women in the 1940s AI翻译
  作者：Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：The 1940s marked a turning point in the labor market outcomes of African-American women. They experienced large wage gains relative to white women, sharp declines in agricultural and domestic service work, and significant increases in formal sector employment. Using a semiparametric decomposition technique, we assess the influence of changes in productive and personal characteristics, in workers' distribution across occupations and locations, and in the wage structure on both black women's abs...
• Getting inside the black box of white flight: The role of suburban autonomy and public goods AI翻译
  作者：Harvard University
• Strong and weak institutional conflicts within nineteenth-century continental European states AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• War and an economic miracle: The Dutch Republic in comparative European perspective, c. 1570-1700 AI翻译
  作者：University of Amsterdam
• Nutrition and well-being in the late nineteenth century AI翻译
  作者：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
  摘要：Using the 1888 Cost of Living Survey, I estimate the demand for calories of American and British industrial workers. I find that the income and expenditure elasticities of calories for American households are significantly lower than the corresponding elasticities for British households, suggesting that American industrial workers were nutritionally better off than their British counterparts. I further find that the calorie elasticity differential between the two countries was driven by the hi...
• America's historic stockyards: Livestock hotels. AI翻译
  作者：Davidson College
• Banks, credit markets and development: A study of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1803-1850 AI翻译
  作者：Stanford University
• Rediscovering risk: Country banks as venture capital firms in the first industrial revolution AI翻译
  作者：University of Lausanne
  摘要：Some English country banks were more like modem venture capital firms than modem banks in terms of legal and managerial structure, size and source of investment funding, size and nature of investments, and riskiness. This is exemplified by Praed & Co. of Truro, which was heavily engaged in financing the adoption of a risky new technology-Watt steam engines-by Cornish copper mines in the period 1775-1800. If some banks were proto-venture capital firms, rather than proto-banks, then their illiqu...