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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Economic History: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive


2012
w17734 Shuaizhang Feng
Michael Oppenheimer
Wolfram Schlenker
Climate Change, Crop Yields, and Internal Migration in the United States


2011
w17625 Richard Hornbeck
Pinar Keskin
The Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer: Agricultural Adaptation to Groundwater and Climate

w17216 Quamrul Ashraf
Oded Galor
The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

w17113 Nico Voigtlaender
Hans-Joachim Voth
Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

w17106 James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik
Institutional Comparative Statics


2010
w16519 Terry L. Anderson
Ragnar Arnason
Gary D. Libecap
Efficiency Advantages of Grandfathering in Rights-Based Fisheries Management

w16324 Gary D. Libecap
Institutional Path Dependence in Climate Adaptation: Coman's “Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation”

w16242 Kenneth A. Snowden
Covered Farm Mortgage Bonds in the Late Nineteenth Century U.S.

w16203 R. Quentin Grafton
Clay Landry
Gary D. Libecap
Sam McGlennon
Robert O'Brien
An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets: Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA

w15820 Gary D. Libecap
Dean Lueck
Trevor O'Grady
Large Scale Institutional Changes: Land Demarcation Within the British Empire

w15815 Carmen M. Reinhart
This Time is Different Chartbook: Country Histories on Debt, Default, and Financial Crises

w15797 R. Quentin Grafton
Clay Landry
Gary D. Libecap
Robert J. O'Brien
Water Markets: Australia's Murray-Darling Basin and the US Southwest

w15697 Daniel Bogart
Gary Richardson
Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain

w15669 Karen Clay
Werner Troesken
Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog

w15667 Daniel Treisman
Oil and Democracy in Russia


2009
w15605 Richard Hornbeck
The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl: Short and Long-run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe

w15558 Zeynep K. Hansen
Gary D. Libecap
Scott E. Lowe
Climate Variability and Water Infrastructure: Historical Experience in the Western United States

w15520 Jeremy Atack
Robert A. Margo
Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860

w15264 Lee J. Alston
Edwyna Harris
Bernardo Mueller
De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers

w15157 Nathan Nunn
Nancy Qian
The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment

w14942 Gary D. Libecap
Dean Lueck
The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Institutions

w14927 Eyal Dvir
Kenneth S. Rogoff
Three Epochs of Oil

w14918 Nathan Nunn
Diego Puga
Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa

w14686 Joseph H. Davis
Christopher Hanes
Paul W. Rhode
Harvests and Business Cycles in Nineteenth-Century America


2008
w14560 Robert J. Gordon
Did Economics Cause World War II?

w14298 Noel Maurer
Lakshmi Iyer
The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918

w14142 Alan L. Olmstead
Paul W. Rhode
Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy

w13852 Lee Alston
Shannan Mattiace
Tomas Nonnenmacher
Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts: The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915


2007
w13642 Gary D. Libecap
Open-Access Losses and Delay in the Assignment of Property Rights


2006
w12598 Gary D. Libecap
The Assignment of Property Rights on the Western Frontier: Lessons for Contemporary Environmental and Resource Policy

w12381 Michael R. Haines
Robert A. Margo
Railroads and Local Economic Development: The United States in the 1850s

w11960 Eric Hilt
The Negative Trade-off Between Risk and Incentives: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry

w11923 Lawrence H. Goulder
William A. Pizer
The Economics of Climate Change


2005
w11231 Lee J. Alston
Joseph P. Ferrie
Time on the Ladder: Career Mobility in Agriculture, 1890-1938


2004
w10801 Gary D. Libecap
Transaction Costs: Valuation Disputes, Bi-Lateral Monopoly Bargaining and Third-Party Effects in Water Rights Exchanges. The Owens Valley Transfer to Los Angeles

w10403 Eric Hilt
Incentives in Corporations: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry


2003
w10069 Wolfgang Keller
Carol H. Shiue
The Origins of Spatial Interaction

w10055 Zeynep K. Hansen
Gary D. Libecap
Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930's


2002
w8863 Alan L. Olmstead
Paul W. Rhode
The Red Queen and the Hard Reds: Productivity Growth in American Wheat, 1800-1940


2001
w8375 Peter C. Mancall
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Thomas Weiss
Agricultural Labor Productivity in the Lower South, 1720-1800


2000
w7947 Alan L. Olmstead
Paul W. Rhode
The Diffusion of the Tractor in American Agriculture: 1910-60


1997
h0100 Kenneth L. Sokoloff
Viken Tchakerian
Manufacturing Where Agriculture Predominates: Evidence from the South and Midwest in 1860

h0099 Lee A. Craig
Thomas Weiss
Nutritional Status and Agricultural Surpluses in the Antebellum United States

h0096 Alan M. Taylor
Latifundia as Malefactor in Economic Development? Scale, Tenancy, and Agriculture on the Pampas, 1880-1914


1996
h0082 Elizabeth B. Field-Hendre
Lee A. Craig
Were Free Southern Farmers "Driven to Indolence" by Slavery? A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach

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