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作者：University of Richmond
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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Oxford
摘要：This article provides an overview of wealth inequality in Germany during 1300-1850, introducing a novel database. We document four alternating phases of inequality decline and growth. The Black Death (1347-1352) led to inequality decline, until about 1450. Thereafter, inequality rose steadily. The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) and the 1627-1629 plague triggered a second phase of inequality reduction. This distinguishes Germany from other European areas where inequality grew monotonically. Ineq...
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作者：University of Bayreuth; University of Bayreuth
摘要：This paper studies the average and heterogeneous effects of railway access on parish-level population, income, and industrialization in Wurttemberg during the Industrial Revolution. We show that the growth-enhancing effect of the railway was much greater in parishes that were larger and more industrial at the outset. However, such early industrial parishes were rare in the relatively poor German state. This might explain why we find small average growth effects, which only increase at the end ...
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作者：Utrecht University
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作者：Princeton University
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作者：University of Rome Tor Vergata
摘要：In 1942 more than 110,000 persons of Japanese origin living on the U.S. West Coast were forcibly sent away to ten internment camps for one to three years. This paper studies how internees' careers were affected in the long run. Combining Census data, camp records, and survey data, I develop a predictor of a person's internment status based on Census observables. Using a difference-in-differences framework, I find that internment had long-run positive effects on earnings. The evidence is consis...
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作者：Yale University; University of Murcia; Auburn University System; Auburn University
摘要：We use data from marriage records in Murcia, Spain, in the eighteenth century to study the role of women in social mobility in the pre-modern era. Our measure of social standing is identification as a don or dona, an honorific denoting high, though not necessarily noble, status. We show that this measure, which is acquired over the lifecycle, shows gendered transmission patterns. In particular, same-sex transmission is stronger than opposite-sex, for both sons and daughters. The relative trans...
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作者：Weller, Leonardo
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作者：University of York - UK
