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NBER Papers in Development of the American Economy


2013
w19052 Diego A. Comin
Martí Mestieri

Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences

w19045 Leah Platt Boustan
Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities

w19041 Leah Platt Boustan
Devin Bunten
Owen Hearey

Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000

w19040 Leah Platt Boustan
William J. Collins

The Origins and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women's Labor Force Participation

w19026 Michael D. Bordo
Angela Redish

Putting the ‘System’ in the International Monetary System

w19010 Diego A. Comin
Martí Mestieri Ferrer

If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why has Income Diverged?

w19008 George J. Hall
Thomas J. Sargent

Fiscal Discriminations in Three Wars

w18955 Howard Bodenhorn
Large Block Shareholders, Institutional Investors, Boards of Directors and Bank Value in the Nineteenth Century

w18916 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress

w18895 Kris James Mitchener
Gary Richardson

Does “Skin in the Game” Reduce Risk Taking? Leverage, Liability and the Long-Run Consequences of New Deal Banking Reforms

w18874 David S. Jacks
From Boom to Bust: A Typology of Real Commodity Prices in the Long Run

w18852 Michael Brocker
Christopher Hanes

The 1920s American Real Estate Boom and the Downturn of the Great Depression: Evidence from City Cross Sections

w18851 Nathan Nunn
Daniel Trefler

Domestic Institutions as a Source of Comparative Advantage

w18828 Michael D. Bordo
Hugh Rockoff

Not Just the Great Contraction: Friedman and Schwartz’s A Monetary History of the United States 1867 to 1960

w18827 Allison Shertzer
Immigrant Group Size and Political Mobilization: Evidence from European Migration to the United States

w18823 Harold L. Cole
Lee E. Ohanian

The Impact of Cartelization, Money, and Productivity Shocks on the International Great Depression

w18822 Claudia Olivetti
M. Daniele Paserman

In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1930

w18821 Matthew Chambers
Carlos Garriga
Donald E. Schlagenhauf

Did Housing Policies Cause the Postwar Boom in Homeownership?

w18819 Dan Liu
Christopher M. Meissner

Market Potential and the Rise of US Productivity Leadership

w18816 Todd Neumann
Jason Taylor
Price Fishback

Fluctuations in Weekly Hours and Total Hours Worked Over the Past 90 Years and the Importance of Changes in Federal Policy Toward Job Sharing

w18814 Christopher M. Meissner
Capital Flows, Credit Booms, and Financial Crises in the Classical Gold Standard Era

w18813 Nico Voigtländer
Hans-Joachim Voth

Married to Intolerance: Attitudes towards Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006

w18802 Lisa D. Cook
Trevon D. Logan
John M. Parman

Distinctively Black Names in the American Past

w18796 Alexander J. Field
The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001-2011: A Comparative Historical Approach

w18790 Gary Solon
Theoretical Models of Inequality Transmission across Multiple Generations

w18789 Matthew S. Jaremski
National Banking's Role in U.S. Industrialization, 1850-1900

w18770 Philip Osafo-Kwaako
James A. Robinson

Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa

w18752 Lawrence F. Katz
Robert A. Margo

Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective

w18746 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

The Missing Transmission Mechanism in the Monetary Explanation of the Great Depression

w18718 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Winning the War: Poverty from the Great Society to the Great Recession

w18717 Joanna Lahey
Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Fertility Control Access on the 19th Century Demographic Transition

w18713 Stephen H. Haber
Aldo Musacchio

These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

w18712 Eugene N. White
Competition Among the Exchanges before the SEC: Was the NYSE a Natural Hegemon?

w18676 Claudia Goldin
Claudia Olivetti

Shocking Labor Supply: A Reassessment of the Role of World War II on U.S. Women’s Labor Supply

w18697 Livia Chițu
Barry Eichengreen
Arnaud J. Mehl

History, Gravity and International Finance

w18692 Alan Barreca
Karen Clay
Olivier Deschenes
Michael Greenstone
Joseph S. Shapiro

Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

w18673 Barry Eichengreen
Donghyun Park
Kwanho Shin

Growth Slowdowns Redux: New Evidence on the Middle-Income Trap


2012
w18631 Petra Moser
Patent Laws and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History

w18616 Christopher Hanes
Paul W. Rhode

Harvests and Financial Crises in Gold-Standard America

w18612 Daniel B. Jones
Werner Troesken
Randall Walsh

A Poll Tax by any Other Name: The Political Economy of Disenfranchisement

w18606 Alan M. Taylor
External Imbalances and Financial Crises

w18588 Lee J. Alston
Marcus Melo
Bernardo Mueller
Carlos Pereira

Changing Social Contracts: Beliefs and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil

w18566 Leander Heldring
James A. Robinson

Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa

w18535 Hilary W. Hoynes
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Douglas Almond

Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net

w18534 Diego A. Comin
Mikhail Dmitriev
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

The Spatial Diffusion of Technology

w18500 Shawn Kantor
Price V. Fishback
John Joseph Wallis

Did the New Deal Solidify the 1932 Democratic Realignment?

w18487 Stephen B. Billings
David J. Deming
Jonah E. Rockoff

School Segregation, Educational Attainment and Crime: Evidence from the end of busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg

w18477 Karen Clay
Jeff Lingwall
Melvin Stephens
Jr.

Do Schooling Laws Matter? Evidence from the Introduction of Compulsory Attendance Laws in the United States

w18427 Charles W. Calomiris
Joseph R. Mason
Marc Weidenmier
Katherine Bobroff

The Effects of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance on Michigan’s Banks’ Survival in the 1930s

w18416 Richard Hornbeck
Pinar Keskin

Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-run and Long-run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer

w18410 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The Most Egalitarian of All Professions: Pharmacy and the Evolution of a Family-Friendly Occupation

w18396 Peter H. Lindert
Jeffrey G. Williamson

American Incomes 1774-1860

w18388 Jonathan Rose
Kenneth A. Snowden

The New Deal and the Origins of the Modern American Real Estate Loan Contract

w18383 Steven Nafziger
Peter H. Lindert

Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution

w18363 Gerardo della Paolera
Alan M. Taylor

Sovereign Debt in Latin America, 1820–1913

w18333 Edward L. Glaeser
Sari Pekkala Kerr
William R. Kerr

Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

w18315 Robert J. Gordon
Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds

w18316 Ryan L. Lampe
Petra Moser

Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from 20 U.S. Industries under the New Deal

w18308 Adam Bee
Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

The Validity of Consumption Data: Are the Consumer Expenditure Interview and Diary Surveys Informative?

w18302 Adriana Lleras-Muney
Allison Shertzer

Did the Americanization Movement Succeed? An Evaluation of the Effect of English-Only and Compulsory Schools Laws on Immigrants' Education

w18298 Ran Abramitzky
Leah Platt Boustan
Katherine Eriksson

Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence From Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration

w18296 Richard Hornbeck
Suresh Naidu

When the Levee Breaks: Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South

w18290 Alan M. Taylor
The Great Leveraging

w18272 Price V. Fishback
Trevor Kollmann

New Multi-City Estimates of the Changes in Home Values, 1920-1940

w18271 Price V. Fishback
John Joseph Wallis

What Was New About the New Deal?

w18264 Carola Frydman
Eric Hilt
Lily Y. Zhou

Economic Effects of Runs on Early 'Shadow Banks': Trust Companies and the Impact of the Panic of 1907

w18234 Matthew Gentzkow
Jesse M. Shapiro
Michael Sinkinson

Competition and Ideological Diversity: Historical Evidence from US Newspapers

w18221 Agustín S. Bénétrix
Kevin H. O'Rourke
Jeffrey G. Williamson

The Spread of Manufacturing to the Periphery 1870-2007: Eight Stylized Facts

w18194 Michael D. Bordo
Joseph G. Haubrich

Deep Recessions, Fast Recoveries, and Financial Crises: Evidence from the American Record

w18164 Matthew Gentzkow
Nathan Petek
Jesse M. Shapiro
Michael Sinkinson

Do Newspapers Serve the State? Incumbent Party Influence on the US Press, 1869-1928

w18130 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?

w18129 Suresh Naidu
Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South

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


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