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NBER Papers in Development of the American Economy


2012
w18099 Farley Grubb
Chronic Specie Scarcity and Efficient Barter: The Problem of Maintaining an Outside Money Supply in British Colonial America

w18097 Livia Chitu
Barry Eichengreen
Arnaud J. Mehl

When did the dollar overtake sterling as the leading international currency? Evidence from the bond markets

w18064 Rodney J. Andrews
Trevon D. Logan
Michael J. Sinkey

Identifying Confirmatory Bias in the Field: Evidence from a Poll of Experts

w18034 Eric W. Bond
Mario J. Crucini
Tristan Potter
Joel Rodrigue

Misallocation and Productivity Effects of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

w18027 Raghuram Rajan
Rodney Ramcharan

The Anatomy of a Credit Crisis: The Boom and Bust in Farm Land Prices in the United States in the 1920s.

w18021 Matthew Jaremski
Peter L. Rousseau

Banks, Free Banks, and U.S. Economic Growth

w18011 Ran Abramitzky
Leah Platt Boustan
Katherine Eriksson

A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

w17997 Farley Grubb
Is Paper Money Just Paper Money? Experimentation and Local Variation in the Fiat Paper Monies Issued by the Colonial Governments of British North America, 1690-1775: Part I

w17996 Carolyn M. Moehling
Melissa A. Thomasson

Saving Babies: The Contribution of Sheppard-Towner to the Decline in Infant Mortality in the 1920s

w17994 Daron Acemoglu
The World our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond

w17984 Michael D. Bordo
Owen Humpage
Anna J. Schwartz

Epilogue: Foreign-Exchange-Market Operations in the Twenty-First Century

w17979 Davide Cantoni
Noam Yuchtman

Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution

w17963 Chen Bo
David S. Jacks

Trade, Variety, and Immigration

w17922 Martha J. Bailey
Brad Hershbein
Amalia R. Miller

The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages

w17896 Michael D. Bordo
Christopher M. Meissner

Does Inequality Lead to a Financial Crisis?

w17879 Richard H. Steckel
William J. White

Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare

w17871 Alan de Bromhead
Barry Eichengreen
Kevin H. O'Rourke

Right-Wing Political Extremism in the Great Depression

w17869 Nathan Nunn
Culture and the Historical Process

w17860 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

The Incentive Effects of Marginal Tax Rates: Evidence from the Interwar Era

w17854 Kay Giesecke
Francis A. Longstaff
Stephen Schaefer
Ilya Strebulaev

Macroeconomic Effects of Corporate Default Crises: A Long-Term Perspective

w17852 Latika Chaudhary
Aldo Musacchio
Steven Nafziger
Se Yan

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

w17827 Stephanie Riegg Cellini
Claudia Goldin

Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges

w17808 Howard Bodenhorn
Voting Rights, Share Concentration, and Leverage at Nineteenth-Century US Banks

w17794 Nathan Nunn
Nancy Qian

Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War

w17776 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Ebonya L. Washington

Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965

w17754 Wolfgang Keller
Ben Li
Carol H. Shiue

Shanghai’s Trade, China’s Growth: Continuity, Recovery, and Change since the Opium War

w17740 Charles W. Calomiris
Stanley D. Longhofer
William Miles

The Housing Wealth Effect: The Crucial Roles of Demographics, Wealth Distribution and Wealth Shares


2011
w17665 Barry Eichengreen
International Policy Coordination: The Long View

w17633 Martha J. Bailey
Susan M. Dynarski

Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion

w17625 Richard Hornbeck
Pinar Keskin

The Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer: Agricultural Adaptation to Groundwater and Climate

w17621 Òscar Jordà
Moritz HP. Schularick
Alan M. Taylor

When Credit Bites Back: Leverage, Business Cycles, and Crises

w17597 Douglas A. Irwin
Anticipating the Great Depression? Gustav Cassel’s Analysis of the Interwar Gold Standard

w17595 Douglas A. Irwin
Gold Sterilization and the Recession of 1937-38

w17573 Ryan L. Lampe
Petra Moser

Patent Pools and the Direction of Innovation - Evidence from the 19th-century Sewing Machine Industry

w17526 Alan Barreca
Price V. Fishback
Shawn Kantor

Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States

w17492 Michael D. Bordo
Harold James

Reserves and Baskets

w17458 William J. Collins
Katharine L. Shester

Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States

w17443 Alejandro Komai
Gary Richardson

A Brief History of Regulations Regarding Financial Markets in the United States: 1789 to 2009

w17437 Gary Richardson
Patrick Van Horn

When the Music Stopped: Transatlantic Contagion During the Financial Crisis of 1931

w17425 Michael D. Bordo
Owen F. Humpage
Anna J. Schwartz

The Federal Reserve as an Informed Foreign Exchange Trader: 1973 – 1995

w17382 Dora Costa
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War

w17380 Michael D. Bordo
Agnieszka Markiewicz
Lars Jonung

A Fiscal Union for the Euro: Some Lessons from History

w17343 Martha J. Bailey
Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on U.S. Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X

w17314 Nico Voigtländer
Hans-Joachim Voth

How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction

w17312 Michael D. Bordo
Angela Redish
Hugh Rockoff

Why didn’t Canada have a banking crisis in 2008
(or in 1930, or 1907, or ...)?

w17303 Carola Frydman
Raven Molloy

Pay Cuts for the Boss: Executive Compensation in the 1940s

w17276 Farley Grubb
The Continental Dollar: Initial Design, Ideal Performance, and the Credibility of Congressional Commitment

w17267 Michael D. Bordo
Hugh Rockoff

The Influence of Irving Fisher on Milton Friedman’s Monetary Economics

w17266 Raghuram G. Rajan
Rodney Ramcharan

Constituencies and Legislation: The Fight over the McFadden Act of 1927

w17242 David S. Jacks
Defying Gravity: The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade

w17215 Peter C. Mancall
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Thomas J. Weiss

Economic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region: Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to 1800

w17211 Peter H. Lindert
Jeffrey G. Williamson

American Incomes before and after the Revolution

w17209 Farley Grubb
State Redemption of the Continental Dollar, 1779-1790

w17206 Steven C.A. Pincus
James A. Robinson

What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution?

w17166 Daniel K. Fetter
How Do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? Evidence from the Mid-century GI Bills

w17161 Joseph P. Ferrie
Karen Rolf
Werner Troesken

Cognitive Disparities, Lead Plumbing, and Water Chemistry: Intelligence Test Scores and Exposure to Water-Borne Lead Among World War Two U.S. Army Enlistees

w17155 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Nora E. Gordon
Sarah J. Reber

Federal Aid and Equality of Educational Opportunity: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South

w17147 Eric Hilt
Jacqueline Valentine

Democratic Dividends: Stockholding, Wealth and Politics in New York, 1791-1826

w17123 Richard C.K. Burdekin
Kris James Mitchener
Marc D. Weidenmier

Irving Fisher and Price-Level Targeting in Austria: Was Silver the Answer?

w17098 Alberto F. Alesina
Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn

On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

w17093 Ran Abramitzky
Victor Lavy

How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistribution Policies and in Returns

w17051 Suresh Naidu
Noam Yuchtman

Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain

w17024 Michael D. Bordo
Peter L. Rousseau

Historical Evidence on the Finance-Trade-Growth Nexus

w17016 Joseph P. Ferrie
Karen Rolf

Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and Health After Age 70: A New Longitudinal Analysis for the U.S., 1895-2005

w16999 Rajashri Chakrabarti
Donghoon Lee
Wilbert van der Klaauw
Basit Zafar

Household Debt and Saving During the 2007 Recession

w16983 Petra Moser
Paul W. Rhode

Did Plant Patents Create the American Rose?

w16966 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson

Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment"

w16952 Arindrajit Dube
Ethan Kaplan
Suresh Naidu

Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information

w16946 Michael D. Bordo
Owen F. Humpage
Anna J. Schwartz

U.S. Intervention During the Bretton Woods Era: 1962-1973

w16938 Robert W. Fogel
Nathaniel Grotte

An Overview of The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700

w16925 Gabriel P. Mathy
Christopher M. Meissner

Trade, Exchange Rate Regimes and Output Co-Movement: Evidence from the Great Depression

w16872 Gary Richardson
Michael Gou

Business Failures by Industry in the United States, 1895 to 1939: A Statistical History.

w16825 Eugene N. White
“To Establish a More Effective Supervision of Banking”: How the Birth of the Fed Altered Bank Supervision

w16812 Carola Frydman
Raven S. Molloy

Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms

w16809 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975

w16763 Michael D. Bordo
David C. Wheelock

The Promise and Performance of the Federal Reserve as Lender of Last Resort 1914-1933

w16702 Leah Platt Boustan
Robert A. Margo

White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980

w16689 Howard Bodenhorn
Partnership Law and Credit Availability

w16688 Charles W. Calomiris
Joseph Mason
David Wheelock

Did Doubling Reserve Requirements Cause the Recession of 1937-1938? A Microeconomic Approach

w16665 William J. Collins
Robert A. Margo

Race and Home Ownership from the Civil War to the Present


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