Journal of Economic History

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• Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• Intergenerational Occupational Mobility across Three Continents AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
  摘要：I compare rates of intergenerational occupational mobility across four countries in the late nineteenth century: 1869-1895 Argentina, 1850-1880 United States, 1851-1881 Britain, and 1865-1900 Norway. Argentina and the United States had similar levels of intergenerational mobility, and these levels were above those of Britain and Norway. These findings suggest that the higher mobility of nineteenth-century United States relative to Britain might not have been a reflection of American exceptiona...
• Cooperative Property Rights and Agricultural Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador AI翻译
  作者：Harvard University
• Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor AI翻译
  作者：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
  摘要：Although recent studies on African colonial tax systems have deepened our understanding of early fiscal capacity building efforts in the region, they have largely ignored the contributions from a widely used but invisible source of state revenue: that of labor contributions. Exploiting data on corvee systems in French Africa, this is the first article to make these in-kind taxes visible by estimating a lower bound of how much they augmented governments' revenue base. Revealing that labor taxes...
• The Samurai Bond: Credit Supply and Economic Growth in Pre-War Japan AI翻译
  作者：Australian National University
• An Historical Perspective on the Quest for Financial Stability and the Monetary Policy Regime AI翻译
  作者：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
  摘要：This article surveys the co-evolution of monetary policy and financial stability for a number of countries from 1880 to the present. Historical evidence on the incidence, costs, and determinants of financial crises (the most extreme form of financial instability), combined with narratives on some famous financial crises, suggests that financial crises have many causes, including credit-driven asset price booms, which have become more prevalent in recent decades, but in general financial crises...
• Importing Crime? The Effect of Immigration on Crime in the United States, 1880-1930 AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Merced
• Use It or Lose It: Adverse Possession and Economic Development AI翻译
  作者：Harvard University
• Voting Behavior and Public Employment in Nazi Germany AI翻译
  作者：University of Konstanz
  摘要：This article analyzes whether the German National Socialists used economic policies to reward their voters after coming to power in 1933. Using newly-collected data on public employment from the German censuses in 1925, 1933, and 1939 and addressing the potential endogeneity of the NSDAP vote share in 1933 by way of an instrumental variables strategy based on a similar party in Imperial Germany, I find that cities with higher NSDAP vote shares experienced a relative increase in public employme...
• Tariffs and Trees: The Effects of the Austro-Hungarian Customs Union on Specialization and Land-Use Change AI翻译
  作者：Oregon State University; University of New South Wales Sydney; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Jagiellonian University
  摘要：This article examines the impact of the 1850 Austro-Hungarian customs union on production land-use outcomes. Using newly digitized data from the Second Military Survey of the Habsburg Monarchy, we apply a spatial discontinuity design to estimate the impact of trade liberalization on land use. We find that the customs union increased cropland area by 8 percent per year in Hungary between 1850 and 1855, while forestland area decreased by 6 percent. We provide suggestive evidence that this result...