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作者：Bocconi University; Bocconi University
摘要：This article provides a picture of economic inequality in northwestern Italy (Piedmont), 1300-1800. Regional studies of this kind are rare, and none has as long a timescale. The new data proposed illuminate little-known aspects of wealth distribution and general economic inequality in preindustrial times, supporting the idea that during the Early Modern period, inequality grew everywhere, independently from whether the economy was growing or stagnating. This challenges earlier views that expla...
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作者：George Mason University
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作者：University of Helsinki
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作者：Emory University
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作者：RAND Corporation
摘要：I examine the impact of the Great Depression on marriage outcomes and find that marriage rates and local economic conditions are positively correlated. Specifically, poor labor market opportunities for men negatively impact marriage. Conversely, there is some evidence that poor female labor markets actually increase marriage in the period. While the Great Depression did lower marriage rates, the effect was not long lasting: marriages were delayed, not denied. The primary long-run effect of the...
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作者：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
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作者：University of Barcelona
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作者：California Institute of Technology; California Institute of Technology
摘要：Although politics has a huge effect on economic outcomes, we still know too little about what public goods states furnish or what determines the laws, regulations, and policies that states adopt. Worse yet, we do not really understand how states arise in the first place and how they gain the ability to tax. There are numerous unanswered questions here that economic historians can profitably work on, and their research will be particularly valuable if they model the politics, gather data on tax...
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作者：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：The higher calorie levels reported in Gazeley, Newell, Bezabith (2015) are a function of a conversion of food quantities to calories that is weighted towards contemporary, calorie-rich foods. Their conversion uses the full distribution of contemporary foods and should not be applied to historical populations. Since Gazeley, Newell, Bezabith assume that industrial workers in the past had access to contemporary foods, the revised calorie levels reflect contemporary diets rather than historical d...
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作者：Uppsala University
