Journal of Economic History

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• Small, Medium, Large: How the Government Made the US into a Manufacturing Powerhouse. AI翻译
  作者：Langlois, Richard N.
  作者单位：University of Connecticut
• Gender and Racial Differences in Migration Behavior: Evidence from the Farm Exodus within and out of the US South, 1900-1940 AI翻译
  作者：Withrow, Jennifer
  摘要：Using linked Census Tree records and archival sources, I explore the roles of race and gender in migrant selection and sorting during the exodus of single young women and men from U.S. Southern farms from 1900-1940. Female migration rates, influenced by changes in farm men's marriageability, rose during the farm crisis of 1920-1940 and exceeded men's by 1940. On- and off-farm discrimination by race and gender drove differences in migrant characteristics: out-of-South Black female migrants, but...
• Financing Late Industrialization: Evidence from the State Bank of the Russian Empire AI翻译
  作者：Suesse, Marvin; Grigoriadis, Theocharis
  作者单位：Trinity College Dublin; Free University of Berlin
  摘要：Gerschenkron (1962) argued that public institutions such as the State Bank of the Russian Empire spurred the country's industrialization. We test this assertion by exploiting plant-level variation in access to State Bank branches using a unique geocoded factory data set. Employing an identification strategy based on geographical distances between banks and factories, our results show improved access to public banking encouraged faster growth in factory-level revenue, mechanization, and labor p...
• Colonialism on the Cheap: The French Empire 1830-1962 AI翻译
  作者：Cogneau, Denis; Dupraz, Yannick; Huillery, Elise; Mesple-Somps, Sandrine
  作者单位：Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD); Paris School of Economics; Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universite PSL; Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS)
  摘要：How much did France pay for its colonial empire? Did colonies benefit from large transfers from French taxpayers and private investors, or were they, on the contrary, drained of their capital? This paper uses novel budgetary, private investment, and loan data to compute monetary flows between France and the colonies between 1833 and 1962. Public expenditure spent by France on the empire represented only 1.3 percent of its GDP, of which four-fifths was for the military. Trade balance deficits o...
• Strikes and Machines: Investments in the Norwegian Inter-War-Period AI翻译
  作者：Kotsadam, Andreas; Rasmussen, Magnus B.; Moene, Kalle; Kjelsrud, Anders; Gjerlow, Haakon
  作者单位：University of Oslo; Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
  摘要：To what extent do strike threats prompt firms to adopt capital-intensive methods to deter strikes or labor-intensive strategies to maintain flexibility during work stoppages? We introduce a theoretical model that demonstrates how threats of industrial action influence capital investments through relative factor prices and the power dynamics between workers and employers. Using newly digitized data from 3,141 industrial conflicts and collective agreements in Norway during the interwar period, o...
• The Aftermath of Sovereign Debt Crises: A Narrative Approach AI翻译
  作者：Esteves, Rui; Kenny, Sean; Lennard, Jason
  作者单位：University College Cork; Lund University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
  摘要：This paper investigates the causal effects of sovereign debt crises in a sample of 50 defaulting economies between 1870 and 2010. As default is potentially endogenous, we use the narrative approach to identify plausibly exogenous episodes. We find economically and statistically significant costs of up to 3.2 percent of GDP before recovering to the pre-crisis level after five years. The average aftermath, however, conceals a large heterogeneity by default cause. Defaults originating from negati...
• The Political Economy of Commodity Cartel Formation: The Case of Coffee, 1930-1940 AI翻译
  作者：Robles-Baez, Christian; Medina, Luis Fernando; Bucheli, Marcelo
  作者单位：Stanford University; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  摘要：We inquire how a commodity cartel is created by studying the negotiations between Colombia and Brazil to stabilize the international coffee market in the 1930s. We show how differences among actors involved in the industry within the negotiating countries in terms of land ownership and type of coffee produced, prevented early cartelization agreements. Cartelization was only achieved when four factors converged: financial and infrastructural capability to store excess production, in-depth knowl...
• Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Savings Bank AI翻译
  作者：Arthi, Vellore
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine
• The Debt Crisis ofthe 1980s: Law and Political Economy AI翻译
  作者：Panizza, Ugo
• It Takes Money to Make MPs: Evidence from 160 Years of British Campaign Spending AI翻译
  作者：Cage, Julia; Dewitte, Edgard
  作者单位：Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Oxford
  摘要：We study electoral campaigns over the long run, through the lens of their spending. We build a novel, exhaustive dataset on U.K. general elections from 1857 to 2017. We provide quantitative insights on the history of campaigns, including the shift away from paid staff toward advertising. We then show that the correlation between candidate spending and votes has strongly increased since the 1880s, peaking in the last quarter of the twentieth century. We link this pattern to the introduction of ...