SI 2016 Development of the American Economy
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Jeremiah Dittmar, Ralf Meisenzahl
State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutions, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany -
Christoffer Koch, Patrick Van Horn
Bank Leverage Trends and Cycles during the National Banking Era -
Daniel W. Shoag, Nicholas Carollo
The Causal Effect of Place: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment -
Barbara Biasi, Petra Moser
Effects of Copyrights on Science: Evidence from the World War II Book Republication Program -
Howard Bodenhorn
Blind Tigers and Red Tape Cocktails: Liquor Control and Homicide in Late Nineteenth-Century South Carolina -
Richard C. Sutch
The One-Percent across Two Centuries: A Replication of Thomas Piketty’s Data On the Concentration of Wealth in the United States -
Martin Fiszbein
Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development: Evidence from US Counties -
Melissa Dell, Pablo Querubin
Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies -
Philipp Ager, Francesco Cinnirella, Peter S. Jensen
The Kindergarten Movement and the US Demographic Transition -
Mark Paddrik, Haelim M. Park, Jessie Jiaxu Wang
Bank Networks and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the National Banking Acts -
Eric C. Edwards, Steven M. Smith
The Role of Irrigation in the Development of American Agriculture -
Peter H. Lindert
Purchasing Power Disparity: Who Could Consume More before 1914? -
Richard H. Steckel
Sweet Blood: Biological Human Capital and the Peril of Rapid Economic Growth -
Scott Fulford, Felipe Schwartzman
The Benefits of Commitment to a Currency Peg: Lessons from the National Banking System -
Farley Grubb
Colonial Virginia's Paper Money Regime, 1755-1774: Value Decomposition and Performance -
Taylor Jaworski, Carl Kitchens
National Policy for Regional Development: Evidence from Appalachian Highways -
Changkeun Lee
The Great Depression and the Cleansing Hypothesis -
Mark Koyama, Melanie Meng Xue
Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China -
Joshua K. Hausman, Paul Rhode, Johannes Wieland
Recovery from the Great Depression: The Farm Channel in Spring 1933 -
Joshua A. Lewis, Edson R. Severnini
The Value of Rural Electricity: Evidence from the Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid -
Remi Jedwab, Noel D. Johnson, Mark Koyama
Bones, Bacteria and Break Points: The Heterogeneous Spatial Effects of the Black Death and Long-Run Growth -
Miguel Morin, Rowena E.. Gray, Paul Gaggl
Technological Revolutions and Occupational Change: Electrifying News from the Old Days -
Huixin Bi, Nora Traum
Sovereign Risk and Fiscal (In)attention: A Look at the U.S. State Default of the 1840s -
Christian Dippel, Jean-Paul Carvalho
Elite Fragmentation, Co-option and the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Theory and a Tale of 14 Islands -
Nathaniel Hilger
Upward Mobility and Discrimination: The Case of Asian-Americans -
Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas
The Birth of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age -
Angela Vossmeyer
Analysis of Stigma and Bank Behavior -
Matthew S. Jaremski, Price V. Fishback
Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century? -
Bryan Leonard, Gary D. Libecap
First Possession of Water in the American West: An Economic Analysis of Property Rights
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