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NBER Papers in Development of the American Economy

NBER Papers in Development of the American Economy

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2009
w15524 Miguel Almunia
Agustín S. Bénétrix
Barry Eichengreen
Kevin H. O'Rourke
Gisela Rua

From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons

w15520 Jeremy Atack
Robert A. Margo

Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860

w15512 Moritz Schularick
Alan M. Taylor

Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles and Financial Crises, 1870–2008

w15491 Peter H. Lindert
Revealing Failures in the History of School Finance

w15475 Alan M. Taylor
The Global 1970s and the Echo of the Great Depression

w15440 Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Kenneth L. Sokoloff
Dhanoos Sutthiphisal

The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century

w15411 André C. Martínez Fritscher
Aldo Musacchio

Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

w15408 Anthony B. Atkinson
Thomas Piketty
Emmanuel Saez

Top Incomes in the Long Run of History

w15403 Charles Calomiris
Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game

w15401 Kris James Mitchener
Marc D. Weidenmier

Are Hard Pegs Ever Credible in Emerging Markets? Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard

w15389 Michael D. Bordo
Joseph G. Haubrich

Credit Crises, Money and Contractions: an historical view

w15374 Michael Huberman
Christopher M. Meissner

Riding the Wave of Trade: Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization

w15355 Raquel Fernández
Women's Rights and Development

w15319 Diego A. Comin
Bart Hobijn

The CHAT Dataset

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

w15305 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality

w15290 Martin S. Feldstein
Economic Conditions and U.S. National Security in the 1930s and Today

w15283 Atif R. Mian
Amir Sufi

House Prices, Home Equity-Based Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis

w15267 David S. Jacks
Christopher M. Meissner
Dennis Novy

Trade Booms, Trade Busts, and Trade Costs

w15250 David S. Jacks
On the Death of Distance and Borders: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century

w15209 Lee J. Alston
Andrés A. Gallo

Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina

w15195 Kris James Mitchener
Masato Shizume
Marc D. Weidenmier

Why did Countries Adopt the Gold Standard? Lessons from Japan

w15157 Nathan Nunn
Nancy Qian

The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment

w15144 Douglas A. Irwin
Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds over Early U.S. Trade Policy

w15142 Barry Eichengreen
Douglas A. Irwin

The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?

w15135 Howard Bodenhorn
Splendid Associations of Favored Individuals: Federal and State Commercial Banking Policy in the Federalist Era

w15099 Howard Bodenhorn
Gregory Price

Crime and Body Weight in the Nineteenth Century: Was there a Relationship between Brawn, Employment Opportunities and Crime?

w15089 Seema Jayachandran
Adriana Lleras-Muney
Kimberly V. Smith

Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs

w15083 Raghuram G. Rajan
Rodney Ramcharan

Land and Credit: A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century

w15061 Ryan L. Lampe
Petra Moser

Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

w15055 Joshua L. Rosenbloom
William A. Sundstrom

Labor-Market Regimes in U.S. Economic History

w15028 Farley Grubb
Land Policy: Founding Choices and Outcomes, 1781-1802

w15016 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List

Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments

w14993 Peter L. Rousseau
Monetary Policy and the Dollar

w14970 Adrian Stoian
Price V. Fishback

Welfare Spending and Mortality Rates for the Elderly Before the Social Security Era

w14960 Boyan Jovanovic
Peter L. Rousseau

Extensive and Intensive Investment over the Business Cycle

w14951 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Do Investments in Universal Early Education Pay Off? Long-term Effects of Introducing Kindergartens into Public Schools

w14942 Gary D. Libecap
Dean Lueck

The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Institutions

w14926 Shih-tse Lo
Dhanoos Sutthiphisal

Does it Matter Who Has the Right to Patent: First-to-invent or First-to-file? Lessons From Canada

w14892 Eric Hilt
Wall Street's First Corporate Governance Crisis: The Panic of 1826

w14873 Stefania Albanesi
Claudia Olivetti

Gender Roles and Medical Progress

w14869 Elizabeth Cascio
Nora Gordon
Ethan Lewis
Sarah Reber

Paying for Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools

w14847 Brandon Dupont
Alka Gandhi
Thomas Weiss

Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000

w14785 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

w14774 Camilo García-Jimeno
James A. Robinson

The Myth of the Frontier

w14767 William Hynes
David S. Jacks
Kevin H. O'Rourke

Commodity Market Disintegration in the Interwar Period

w14766 Jeffrey G. Williamson
History without Evidence: Latin American Inequality since 1491

w14763 Sevket Pamuk
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Ottoman De-Industrialization 1800-1913: Assessing the Shock, Its Impact and the Response

w14748 David S. Jacks
Kevin H. O'Rourke
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700

w14746 Chulhee Lee
Technological Changes and Employment of Older Manufacturing Workers in Early Twentieth Century America

w14745 Chulhee Lee
Socioeconomic Differences in the Health of Black Union Army Soldiers

w14694 Sambit Bhattacharyya
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation

w14686 Joseph H. Davis
Christopher Hanes
Paul W. Rhode

Harvests and Business Cycles in Nineteenth-Century America

w14681 Marianne Bertrand
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors

w14675 Martha J. Bailey
"Momma's Got the Pill": How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing

w14641 Martha J. Bailey
William J. Collins

Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish

w14640 Jeremy Atack
Fred Bateman
Michael Haines
Robert A. Margo

Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60

w14635 John Komlos
Recent Trends in Height by Gender and Ethnicity in the US in Relation to Levels of Income


2008
w14563 Alan S. Blinder
Jeremy B. Rudd

The Supply-Shock Explanation of the Great Stagflation Revisited

w14555 Hugh Rockoff
Great Fortunes of the Gilded Age

w14536 Richard H. Steckel
Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions

w14532 Michael D. Bordo
Barry Eichengreen

Bretton Woods and the Great Inflation

w14527 Hans Fehr
Sabine Jokisch
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers

w14493 Sibylle H. Lehmann
Kevin H. O'Rourke

The Structure of Protection and Growth in the Late 19th Century

w14484 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Ahmed S. Rahman
Alan M. Taylor

Luddites and the Demographic Transition

w14462 Dora L. Costa
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects

w14422 Asaf Bernstein
Eric Hughson
Marc D. Weidenmier

Can a Lender of Last Resort Stabilize Financial Markets? Lessons from the Founding of the Fed

w14412 Eric Hilt
Katharine E. O'Banion

The Limited Partnership in New York, 1822-1853: Partnerships without Kinship

w14410 Jeremy Atack
Michael R. Haines
Robert A. Margo

Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850-70

w14393 Dan Bogart
Gary Richardson

Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830: A New Source for British History

w14377 Paul W. Rhode
Koleman Strumpf

Historical Political Futures Markets: An International Perspective

w14362 Marc D. Weidenmier
Joseph H. Davis
Roger Aliaga-Diaz

Is Sugar Sweeter at the Pump? The Macroeconomic Impact of Brazil's Alternative Energy Program

w14346 Betsey Stevenson
Divorce Law and Women's Labor Supply

w14334 Peter Mancall
Joshua Rosenbloom
Thomas J. Weiss

The Role of Exports in the Economy of Colonial North America: New Estimates for the Middle Colonies

w14298 Noel Maurer
Lakshmi Iyer

The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918

w14283 Howard Bodenhorn
Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania

w14281 Charles Calomiris
Jonathan Pritchett

Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders' Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market

w14267 Farley Grubb
The Distribution of Congressional Spending During the American Revolution, 1775-1780: The Problem of Geographic Balance

w14167 Price V. Fishback
Rebecca Holmes
Samuel Allen

Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era

w14154 Barry Eichengreen
Marc Flandreau

The Rise and Fall of the Dollar, or When Did the Dollar Replace Sterling as the Leading International Currency?

w14145 Carola Frydman
Raven E. Saks

Executive Compensation: A New View from a Long-Term Perspective, 1936-2005

w14142 Alan L. Olmstead
Paul W. Rhode

Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy

w14141 Richard C. Sutch
Henry Agard Wallace, the Iowa Corn Yield Tests, and the Adoption of Hybrid Corn

w14139 David S. Jacks
Krishna Pendakur

Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution

w14120 Gary Richardson
Patrick Van Horn

Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in New York City During the Great Depression

w14107 Dan Bogart
Gary Richardson

Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830

w14090 Kris J. Mitchener
Mari Ohnuki

Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan

w14077 Gregory Clark
Kevin H. O'Rourke
Alan M. Taylor

Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution

w14053 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

w14043 Shih-tse Lo
Dhanoos Sutthiphisal

Crossover Inventions And Knowledge Diffusion Of General Purpose Technologies? Evidence From The Electrical Technology

w14037 Trevon D. Logan
Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910

w14004 Gary Richardson
Michael McBride

Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild.

w14003 Petra Moser
An Empirical Test of Taste-based Discrimination Changes in Ethnic Preferences and their Effect on Admissions to the NYSE during World War I

w13990 Aurora Gómez Galvarriato
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Was It Prices, Productivity or Policy? The Timing and Pace of Latin American Industrialization after 1870

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

Institutions, Technology, and Trade

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


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