NBER Papers in Development of the American Economy

NBER Papers in Development of the American Economy

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2008
w13982 Robert J. Gordon
Ian Dew-Becker

Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey

w13977 Brandon Dupont
Alka Gandhi
Thomas J. Weiss

The American Invasion of Europe: The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000

w13974 Farley Grubb
Creating Maryland's Paper Money Economy, 1720-1739: The Role of Power, Print, and Markets

w13930 Gary Richardson
Brand Names Before the Industrial Revolution

w13919 Matthias Doepke
Michèle Tertilt

Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men?

w13918 Niall Ferguson
Moritz Schularick

The "Thin Film Of Gold": Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries

w13913 Wolfgang Keller
Carol H. Shiue

Tariffs, Trains, and Trade: The Role of Institutions versus Technology in the Expansion of Markets

w13905 Raj Arunachalam
Trevon Logan

Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?

w13870 Trevon D. Logan
Are Engel Curve Estimates of CPI Bias Biased?

w13869 Trevon D. Logan
Economies of Scale in the Household: Puzzles and Patterns from the American Past

w13852 Lee Alston
Shannan Mattiace
Tomas Nonnenmacher

Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts: The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915

w13841 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Globalization and the Great Divergence: Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913

w13836 Farley Grubb
Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity across the Colonies versus across the States, 1748-1811

w13828 Tanika Chakraborty
Sukkoo Kim

Caste, Kinship and Sex Ratios in India

w13813 Leah Platt Boustan
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970

w13770 Farley Grubb
The Continental Dollar: What Happened to It after 1779?

w13765 Kris James Mitchener
Marc Weidenmier

Trade and Empire

w13757 Gary Richardson
Dan Bogart

Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830

w13717 Kaivan Munshi
Nicholas Wilson

Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest


2007
w13692 Todd C. Neumann
Price V. Fishback
Shawn Kantor

The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market During the New Deal

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

w13597 Charles W. Calomiris
Bank Failures in Theory and History: The Great Depression and Other "Contagious" Events

w13596 Trevon D. Logan
Whoa, Nellie! Empirical Tests of College Football's Conventional Wisdom

w13589 Joseph Kaboski
Trevon D. Logan

Factor Endowments and the Returns to Skill: New Evidence from the American Past

w13577 Michael D. Bordo
Christopher M. Meissner

Foreign Capital and Economic Growth in the First Era of Globalization

w13576 Carolyn Moehling
Anne Morrison Piehl

Immigration and Crime in Early 20th Century America

w13568 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure: Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing

w13567 Marc D. Weidenmier
Kim Oosterlinck

Victory or Repudiation? The Probability of the Southern Confederacy Winning the Civil War

w13550 Branko Milanovic
Peter H. Lindert
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Measuring Ancient Inequality

w13548 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast: The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending

w13543 Leah Platt Boustan
Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration

w13491 Todd Sorensen
Price V. Fishback
Samuel Allen
Shawn E. Kantor

Migration Creation, Diversion, and Retention: New Deal Grants and Migration: 1935-1940

w13489 Michael D. Bordo
Alberto F. Cavallo
Christopher M. Meissner

Sudden Stops: Determinants and Output Effects in the First Era of Globalization, 1880-1913

w13462 Leah Platt Boustan
Robert A. Margo

Why Did Ghettos "Go Bad"? Evidence from the US Postal Service

w13451 Joseph H. Davis
Douglas A. Irwin

The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry: Domestic Production and Foreign Competition

w13450 Douglas A. Irwin
Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight Losses from U.S. Tariffs, 1859-1961

w13437 Thomas Philippon
Ariell Reshef

Skill Biased Financial Development: Education, Wages and Occupations in the U.S. Financial Sector

w13431 Sukkoo Kim
Institutions and U.S. Regional Development: A Study of Massachusetts and Virginia

w13418 Hugh Rockoff
Keep on Scrapping: The Salvage Drives of World War II

w13417 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Steven D. Levitt

Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan

w13403 Kris James Mitchener
Marc D. Weidenmier

The Baring Crisis and the Great Latin American Meltdown of the 1890s

w13393 Barry Eichengreen
The Breakup of the Euro Area

w13345 Wojciech Kopczuk
Emmanuel Saez
Jae Song

Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937

w13335 Sun Go
Peter H. Lindert

The Curious Dawn of American Public Schools

w13334 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
Pierre Yared

Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis

w13311 Leah Platt Boustan
Escape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization

w13299 Thorsten Beck
Ross Levine
Alexey Levkov

Big Bad Banks? The Impact of U.S. Branch Deregulation on Income Distribution

w13294 Petra Moser
Why Don't Inventors Patent?

w13279 Elizabeth Cascio
Nora Gordon
Ethan Lewis
Sarah Reber

From Brown to Busing

w13276 Leah Platt Boustan
Price V. Fishback
Shawn E. Kantor

The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression

w13264 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks

w13223 Sung Won Kang
Hugh Rockoff

After Johnny Came Marching Home: The Political Economy of Veterans' Benefits in the Nineteenth Century

w13208 Daron Acemoglu
María Angélica Bautista
Pablo Querubín
James A. Robinson

Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia

w13184 Robert W. Fogel
Capitalism and Democracy in 2040: Forecasts and Speculations

w13179 Stefania Albanesi
Claudia Olivetti

Gender Roles and Technological Progress

w13162 Lena Edlund
Wojciech Kopczuk

Women, Wealth and Mobility

w13122 Ernesto Dal Bó
Pedro Dal Bó
Jason Snyder

Political Dynasties

w13109 Timothy Guinnane
Ron Harris
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Putting the Corporation in its Place

w13106 Frank Levy
Peter Temin

Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America

w13093 Eric Hilt
When did Ownership Separate from Control? Corporate Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century

w13057 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Ahmed S. Rahman
Alan M. Taylor

Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution

w13055 Joan R. Rosés
Kevin H. O'Rourke
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913

w13047 Farley Grubb
The Continental Dollar: How Much Was Really Issued?

w12993 Michael D. Bordo
Growing Up to Financial Stability

w12984 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The Race between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005

w12983 Gary Richardson
Patrick Van Horn

Fetters of Debt, Deposit, or Gold during the Great Depression? The International Propagation of the Banking Crisis of 1931

w12982 Michael D. Bordo
Christopher Erceg
Andrew Levin
Ryan Michaels

Three Great American Disinflations

w12969 M. Scott Taylor
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison

w12944 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

w12938 Mark Carlson
Kris James Mitchener

Branch Banking as a Device for Discipline: Competition and Bank Survivorship During the Great Depression

w12933 Eugene N. White
The Crash of 1882, Counterparty Risk, and the Bailout of the Paris Bourse

w12917 Matthias Doepke
Fabrizio Zilibotti

Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

w12900 Sukkoo Kim
Immigration, Industrial Revolution and Urban Growth in the United States, 1820-1920: Factor Endowments, Technology and Geography

w12895 Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Gilles Postel-Vinay
Timothy M. Watts

Long Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France

w12854 Elizabeth M. Caucutt
Thomas F. Cooley
Nezih Guner

The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security

w12851 Efraim Benmelech
Tobias J. Moskowitz

The Political Economy of Financial Regulation: Evidence from U.S. State Usury Laws in the 19th Century

w12835 Peter L. Rousseau
Backing, the Quantity Theory, and the Transition to the U.S. Dollar, 1723-1850

w12825 Ryan S. Johnson
Shawn Kantor
Price V. Fishback

Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression


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