Journal of Economic History

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• Long-Run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment: Evidence from the Boll Weevil AI翻译
  作者：College of New Jersey; University of California System; University of California Davis; National Bureau of Economic Research; Stellenbosch University
  摘要：The boll weevil spread across the South from 1892 to 1922 with devastating effect on cotton cultivation. The resulting shift away from this child labor-intensive crop lowered the opportunity cost of school attendance. We investigate the insect's long-run effect on educational attainment using a sample of adults from the 1940 census linked back to their childhood census records. Both white and black children who were young (ages 4 to 9) when the weevil arrived saw increased educational attainme...
• Botswana - A Modern Economic History: An African Diamond in the Rough AI翻译
  作者：University of Helsinki
• Arrested Development? Puerto Rico in an American Century AI翻译
  作者：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Queens College NY (CUNY)
  摘要：Puerto Rico became an American colony in 1898, achieving self-rule after the Great Depression. The standard view is that Puerto Rican living standards stagnated before the policy changes of the New Deal and it has lost ground on the mainland since the early 1970s. I show these claims are mistaken. Using a new GDP index for 1900 to 1940, I show that income per capita grew at impressive rates during direct American rule and Puerto Rico escaped the worst ravages of the Great Depression. In additi...
• The Public Good and the Brazilian State: Municipal Finance and Public Services in Sao Paulo, 1822-1930 AI翻译
  作者：Read, Ian Olivo
• The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome. AI翻译
  作者：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World AI翻译
  作者：University of British Columbia
• What Motivates an Oligarchic Elite to Democratize? Evidence from the Roll Call Vote on the Great Reform Act of 1832 AI翻译
  作者：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  摘要：The Great Reform Act of 1832 was a watershed for democracy in Great Britain. We study the vote on 22 March 1831 in the House of Commons to test three competing theories of democratization: public opinion, political expedience, and threat of revolution. Peaceful agitation and mass-support for reform played an important role. Political expedience also motivated some members of Parliament to support the reform, especially if they were elected in constituencies located in counties that would gain ...
• French and British Colonial Legacies in Education: Evidence from the Partition of Cameroon AI翻译
  作者：University of Warwick
  摘要：Cameroon was partitioned between France and the United Kingdom after WWI and then reunited after independence. I use this natural experiment to investigate colonial legacies in education, using a border discontinuity analysis of historical census microdata from 1976. I find that men born in the decades following partition had, all else equal, one more year of schooling if they were born in the British part. This positive British effect disappeared after 1950, as the French increased education ...
• Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan. AI翻译
  作者：Australian National University
• Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era. AI翻译
  作者：University of Oxford