Journal of Economic History

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• Warrior into workers: The Civil War and the formation of urban-industrial society in a northern city. AI翻译
  作者：Eastern Kentucky University
• Labor markets and firm benefit policies in Japan and the United States AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• A bootstrap test of cross sectional structural change during the US cotton south antebellum era AI翻译
  作者：University of Sydney
• Sugar baron:: Manuel!Rionda and the fortunes of pre-Castro Cuba. AI翻译
  作者：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Instituto de Historia (IH)
• Local granaries and central government disaster relief: Moral hazard and intergovernmental finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century China AI翻译
  作者：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
  摘要：During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Chinese state attempted to administer famine relief partly through a nationwide institution of local granaries. This article explores regional variations in the performance of this institution to understand the reasons for its ultimate breakdown. The evidence suggests granary storage levels were systematically lower in provinces that received more frequent central government disaster relief, and an unintended consequence of disaster relief wa...
• The tuberculous cattle trust: Disease contagion in an era of regulatory uncertainty AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：In 1900 bovine tuberculosis was a serious and growing threat to animal and human health. Early private and state initiatives in the United States often increased the incentives for the interstate trade of diseased stock. One unscrupulous dealer exposed thousands of dairy herds and families to the disease. Our study helps explain the expanding federal role in regulating food safety. In this case regulations arose from genuine health concerns. Before the development of strict regulations, diagno...
• Devastation and renewal: An environmental history of Pittsburgh and its region AI翻译
  作者：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
• Educational disparity in Pakistan, 1947-1971 AI翻译
  作者：Stockholm School of Economics
• Convertible husbandry vs. regular common fields: A model on the relative efficiency of medieval field systems AI翻译
  作者：New York University
  摘要：The existing literature on the economy of medieval England views the practice of convertible husbandry as a more efficient alternative to regular common fields. The article challenges this view by measuring the productivities of the systems, which are found to be approximately equivalent. In interpreting this finding, it is suggested that edaphic conditions and wrongful managerial practices account for the poor performance of convertible husbandry during the Middle Ages, whereas the greater pr...
• Technological uncertainty and earnings dispersion in US iron work, 1866-1881 AI翻译
  作者：United States Department of Labor