Journal of Economic History

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• Income Effects on Health: Evidence from Union Army Pensions AI翻译
  作者：University of Toronto
  摘要：To what extent do rising income levels explain the decline in adult mortality rates experienced in the United States a centuay ago? I explore this question by investigating the income effect of the country's first wide-scale entitlement program: the Union Army pensions. Documenting that Republican Congressional candidates boosted pensions to secure votes, I exploit exogenous increases in income stemming from patronage politics to estimate the semi-elasticity of disease onset with respect to pe...
• Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890-1920. AI翻译
  作者：Washington University (WUSTL)
• The History Manifesto. AI翻译
  作者：George Mason University
• Contraband. Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground. AI翻译
  作者：York University - Canada
• The Contractor State and its Implications, 1659-1815 AI翻译
  作者：University of Oxford
• Moving Matters: The Effect of Location on Crop Production AI翻译
  作者：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  摘要：U.S corn output increased from 1.8 billion bushels in 1879 to 12.7 billion bushels in 2007. Concurrently, the footprint of production changed substantially. Failure to take proper account of movements means that productivity assessments likely misattribute sources of growth and climate change studies likely overestimate impacts. Our new spatial output indexes show that 16 to 21 percent of the increase in U.S. corn output over the 128 years beginning in 1879 was attributable to spatial movement...
• Bread Upon the Waters: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703-1811 AI翻译
  作者：Williams College
• Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France AI翻译
  作者：Portland State University
• Grain Market Integration in the Baltic Sea Region in the Nineteenth Century AI翻译
  作者：Lund University; Lund University
  摘要：This article explores the development of market integration within the Baltic Sea region and with England, from the 1840s to the late 1880s. It exploits two new datasets on grain prices. The degree of market integration is estimated using a wavelet variant of dynamic factor analysis that takes account of both time and distance. Additionally, we use the London corn market as the benchmark for the degree of market integration. Our results show that the role of distance disappeared in the wheat a...
• Was the Classical Gold Standard Credible on the Periphery? Evidence from Currency Risk AI翻译
  作者：Santa Clara University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Claremont Colleges; Claremont McKenna College; Claremont Graduate University
  摘要：We use a standard metric from international finance, the currency risk premium, to assess the credibility of fixed exchange rates during the classical gold standard em. Theory suggests that a completely credible and permanent commitment to join the gold standard would have zero currency risk or no expectation of devaluation. We find that, even five years after a typical emerging-market country joined the gold standard, the currency risk premium averaged at least 220 basis points. Fixed-effects...