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• The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants AI翻译
  作者：Vanderbilt University; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
  摘要：We construct datasets of linked census records to study internal migrants' selection and destination choices during the first decades of the Great Migration (1910-1930). We study both whites and blacks and intra- and inter-regional migration. While there is some evidence of positive selection, the degree of selection was small and participation in migration was widespread. Differences in background, including initial location, cannot account for racial differences in destination choices. Black...
• Incentives That (Could Have) Saved Lives: Government Regulation of Accident Insurance Associations in Germany, 1884-1914 AI翻译
  作者：Yale University; University of Mannheim
  摘要：Germany introduced compulsory industrial accident insurance in 1884. The accident-insurance system compensated injured workers and survivors for losses, but initially failed to limit the growth of accident rates. We trace this failure to the 1884 law's faulty incentives and to an initial unwillingness to use the tools built into the law. The government regulator increasingly stressed rules that forced firms to adopt specific safety-enhancing innovations and practices. Econometric analysis show...
• Reforming Ottoman Governance: Success, Failure and the Path to Decline. AI翻译
  作者：University of Arizona
• Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind. AI翻译
  作者：University of Pennsylvania
• Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia AI翻译
  作者：Wright, Robert E.
• From the Field to the Classroom: The Boll Weevil's Impact on Education in Rural Georgia AI翻译
  作者：College of New Jersey
  摘要：I examine how production of a child labor-intensive crop (cotton) affected schooling in the early twentieth-century American South. Because cotton production may be endogenous, presence of an agricultural pest (the boll weevil) is employed as an instrument. Using newly collected county-level data for Georgia, I find a 10 percent reduction in cotton caused a 2 percent increase in black enrollment rate, but had little effect on white enrollment. The shift away from cotton following the boll weev...
• The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England: Nuisance Law versus Economic Efficiency AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
• The Economic and Social History of Brazil since 1889 AI翻译
  作者：Stanford University
• The Evolution of Bank Supervisory Institutions: Evidence from American States AI翻译
  作者：Santa Clara University; Colgate University
  摘要：We use a novel data set spanning 1820-1910 to assess the factors leading to the creation of formal bank supervisory institutions across American states. We show that it took more than a century for all states to create separate agencies tasked with monitoring the safety and soundness of banks. State legislatures initially pursued cheaper regulatory alternatives, such as double liability laws; however, banking distress at the state level as well as the structural shift from note-issuing to depo...
• The Transformation of Hunger Revisited: Estimating Available Calories from the Budgets of Late Nineteenth-Century British Households AI翻译
  作者：University of Sussex; University of Sussex; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
  摘要：Levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the late nineteenth century have been much debated. Trevon Logan (2006, 2009) estimated a very low average level of available calories. This paper re-examines the data and finds average levels of available calories much more in line with existing studies, more in line with what is known about energy requirements, and more in line with other aspects of the data. In sum, British households were likely to have been significantly better fed ...