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作者：Rhode, Paul W.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：American economic historians generally believe that U.S. modern economic growth began before 1840, was broadly based, and the acceleration was gradual. These claims are treated as conjectures rather than solid conclusions because the census did not publish good economic data before 1840. But the earlier period was not a statistical dark age, as sometimes asserted. After 1817, systematic statistics on postal activity were available at the local level at high frequencies. These data shed light o...
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作者：Giorcelli, Michela
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
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作者：Saavedra, Martin
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：Did women's suffrage affect media sentiment toward voting rights and narratives about women more generally? I identify pro- and anti-suffrage language using publications that explicitly argued for or against early voting reform. I then measure media sentiment using language in newspapers and topic modeling to identify common themes about either suffrage or women. Difference-in-differences estimates show that newspaper coverage of suffrage increased when women won the vote but then declined bel...
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作者：Janas, Pawel
作者单位：California Institute of Technology
摘要：Between 1910 and 1940, U.S. high school graduation rates rose five-fold, driving twentieth-century economic growth. I explore how the Great Depression's surge in youth unemployment influenced this trend, emphasizing gender and socioeconomic disparities. Using linked census data and newly digitized city-level unemployment rates, I find that youth unemployment significantly increased high school and post-secondary completion among higher-income boys, while effects on girls and lower-income youth...
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作者：Blouin, Arthur; Dyer, Julian
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Exeter
摘要：We introduce a data-driven approach to use language to reconstruct history, and apply the methodology to estimate the geographic origins of religious spread. To validate the approach, we use language data to estimate origins of Islam and Buddhism to within 500km of their true (and uncontested) origins. We then apply the methodology to the more complex (and contested) cases of Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. We show that language-based estimates, in these cases, are significantly more alig...
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作者：Carlana, Michela; Tabellini, Marco
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作者：Barr, Jason
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark
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作者：Curtis, Matthew
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark
摘要：When did marriage become strongly assortative? I use a uniquely suitable database from Quebec 1800-1970 to provide the long-run perspective necessary to answer this question. First, I develop a novel method that reveals that marriage was highly assortative as far back as the early nineteenth century. Next, I show this matching depends on the individual human capital of women, not just on family backgrounds. Finally, I show that mothers had an effect on child outcomes independent of the fathers...
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作者：Dossou-Cadja, Rodrigue
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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作者：Geweke, Jonas M.; Rost, Katja
作者单位：University of Zurich
摘要：Early modern urban parliaments suffered an increasing monopolization of political power that hampered urban development. To combat power monopolization, some Swiss city-states reformed their election systems by randomly selecting political representatives from a pre-elected pool of candidates. We implement a difference-in-differences design and find that lottery-based election systems improved the equality of distribution of political seats within parliaments. Lottery-based elections also had ...
