作者：University of Virginia; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：The effects of the GI Bill on collegiate attainment may have differed for black and white Americans owing to differential returns to education and differences in opportunities at colleges and universities, with men in the South facing explicitly segregated colleges. The empirical evidence suggests that World War 11 and the availability of GI benefits had a substantial and positive impact on the educational attainment of white men and black men born outside the South. However, for those black v...
作者：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Pompeu Fabra University
摘要：Spain provides an opportunity to study the causes of regional differences in industrial development over the nineteenth century. As transportation costs decreased and barriers to domestic trade were eliminated, Spanish manufacturing became increasingly concentrated in a few regions. This article combines Heckscher-Ohlin and economic-geography frameworks and finds that comparative-advantage and increasing-return effects were economically very significant and practically explained all difference...
