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作者：Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：After adjusting for sample-selection bias, I find a net decline in average stature of 0.64 inches in the birth cohorts of 1832-1860 in the United States. This result supports the veracity of the Antebellum Puzzle-a deterioration of health during early modern economic growth in the United States. However, this adjustment alters the trend in average stature in the same cohort range, validating concerns over bias in the historical heights literature. The adjustment is based on censuslinked milita...
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作者：Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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作者：Sgard, Jerome
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作者：Utrecht University; Humboldt University of Berlin; Lund University
摘要：With use of innovative proxies and new annual data, I demonstrate that relatively high legal capacity and regulatory activity of the early-modern Polish parliament, the Seym, was positively associated with deeper domestic commodity market integration. Conversely, the lack of effective law-making, caused by the right of a single delegate to discontinue the Seym's sessions, fostered market fragmentation. This indicates that early parliamentary regimes required legal capacity to harmonize domesti...
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作者：Australian National University
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作者：Clemson University
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作者：Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas A.C. (CIDE)
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作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
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作者：University of Pennsylvania
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作者：Middlebury College
摘要：In an attempt to divide and marginalize the black population, the apartheid regime forcefully relocated some 3.5 million South Africans to rural homelands between 1960 and 1980. This event, considered one of history's largest social engineering exercises, created overcrowded and economically deprived communities of displaced people. This article uses geo-coded data to explore the long-term effects of removals on current measures of social capital. Comparing people within the same homeland, I s...
