NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Development of the American Economy Archive

NBER Papers in Development of the American Economy


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

Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment: New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch

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


2006
w12801 Joseph Cullen
Price V. Fishback

Did Big Government's Largesse Help the Locals? The Implications of WWII Spending for Local Economic Activity, 1939-1958

w12796 Larry E. Jones
Michele Tertilt

An Economic History of Fertility in the U.S.: 1826-1960

w12795 Douglass C North
John Joseph Wallis
Barry R. Weingast

A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

w12789 Mario Chacon
James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik

When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's "La Violencia"

w12719 Gary Richardson
A Comment Concerning Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard

w12717 Gary Richardson
Bank Distress during the Great Depression: The Illiquidity-Insolvency Debate Revisited

w12716 Gary Richardson
Correspondent Clearing and the Banking Panics of the Great Depression

w12715 Gary Richardson
Quarterly Data on the Categories and Causes of Bank Distress During the Great Depression

w12666 Hugh Rockoff
On the Origins of "A Monetary History"

w12662 Michael D. Bordo
Owen Humpage
Anna J. Schwartz

The Historical Origins of U.S. Exchange Market Intervention Policy

w12661 Eugene N. White
Anticipating the Stock Market Crash of 1929: The View from the Floor of the Stock Exchange

w12657 Diego Comin
William Easterly
Erick Gong

Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?

w12636 Patricia E. Beeson
Werner Troesken

When Bioterrorism Was No Big Deal

w12616 Allan Drazen
Stefan Hubrich

A Simple Test of the Effect of Interest Rate Defense

w12613 Shilpi Kapur
Sukkoo Kim

British Colonial Institutions and Economic Development in India

w12610 Robert H. Bates
John H. Coatsworth
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa

w12603 Karen Clay
Werner Troesken
Michael Haines

Lead Pipes and Child Mortality

w12602 David S. Jacks
Christopher M. Meissner
Dennis Novy

Trade Costs in the First Wave of Globalization

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

w12594 Ching-Yi Chung
Gary Richardson

Deposit Insurance and the Composition of Bank Suspensions in Developing Economies: Lessons from the State Deposit Insurance Experiments of the 1920S

w12591 Gary Richardson
William Troost

Monetary Intervention Mitigated Banking Panics During the Great Depression: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Federal Reserve District Border in Mississippi, 1929 to 1933

w12590 Gary Richardson
Bank Distress During the Great Contraction, 1929 to 1933, New Data from the Archives of the Board of Governors

w12580 Christopher M. Meissner
Alan M. Taylor

Losing our Marbles in the New Century? The Great Rebalancing in Historical Perspective

w12576 James E. Anderson
Commercial Policy in a Predatory World

w12574 James J. Heckman
Sergio Urzua
Edward J. Vytlacil

Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity

w12572 J. David Hacker
Michael R. Haines

American Indian Mortality in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Impact of Federal Assimilation Policies on a Vulnerable Population

w12571 Michael R. Haines
J. David Hacker

The Puzzle of the Antebellum Fertility Decline in the United States: New Evidence and Reconsideration

w12553 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces: Lessons from History

w12549 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity: The Migration Connection

w12546 James Feyrer
Bruce Sacerdote

Colonialism and Modern Income -- Islands as Natural Experiments

w12505 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman

A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

w12517 Jean-Marie Baland
James A. Robinson

Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile

w12491 Michael Bordo
Thomas Helbling
Harold James

Swiss Exchange Rate Policy in the 1930s. Was the Delay in Devaluation Too High a Price to Pay for Conservatism?

w12469 Dhanoos Sutthiphisal
Learning-by-Producing and the Geographic Links Between Invention and Production: Experience From the Second Industrial Revolution

w12460 Gayle Allard
Peter H. Lindert

Euro-Productivity and Euro-Jobs since the 1960s: Which Institutions Really Mattered?

w12455 Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Contractual Tradeoffs and SMEs Choice of Organizational Form, A View from U.S. and French History, 1830-2000

w12450 Barry Eichengreen
Democracy and Globalization

w12416 Chulhee Lee
Military Positions and Post-Service Occupational Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1861-1880

w12414 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

w12393 Michael D. Bordo
Sudden Stops, Financial Crises, and Original Sin in Emerging Countries: Déjà vu?

w12381 Michael R. Haines
Robert A. Margo

Railroads and Local Economic Development: The United States in the 1850s

w12343 William O. Brown
Jr.
J. Harold Mulherin
Marc D. Weidenmier

Competing With the NYSE

w12316 Rafael Dobado González
Aurora Gómez Galvarriato
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879

w12299 Michael D. Bordo
Christopher M. Meissner
Marc D. Weidenmier

Currency Mismatches, Default Risk, and Exchange Rate Depreciation: Evidence from the End of Bimetallism

w12250 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Alan M. Taylor

Democracy and Protectionism

w12246 Sukkoo Kim
Division of Labor and the Rise of Cities: Evidence from U.S. Industrialization, 1850-1880

w12228 Leonard Caruana
Hugh Rockoff

An Elephant in the Garden: The Allies, Spain, and Oil in World War II

w12189 Michael Bordo
Harold James

One World Money, Then and Now

w12139 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz
Ilyana Kuziemko

The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap

w12138 Eugene N. White
Bubbles and Busts: The 1990s in the Mirror of the 1920s

w12137 Filippo Occhino
Kim Oosterlinck
Eugene N. White

How Occupied France Financed Its Own Exploitation in World War II

w12162 Douglas A. Irwin
Tariff Incidence in America's Gilded Age

w12161 Douglas A. Irwin
Antebellum Tariff Politics: Coalition Formation and Shifting Regional Interests

w12160 Douglas A. Irwin
The Impact of Federation on Australia's Trade Flows

w12111 Karen Clay
Werner Troesken

Deprivation and Disease in Early Twentieth-Century America

w12108 Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson

Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions

w12099 Sebastián Mazzuca
James A. Robinson

Political Conflict and Power-sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia

w12074 Kris James Mitchener
Are Prudential Supervision and Regulation Pillars of Financial Stability? Evidence from the Great Depression

w12056 Howard Bodenhorn
Single Parenthood and Childhood Outcomes in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Urban South

w12045 Peter C. Mancall
Joshua Rosenbloom
Thomas Weiss

Exports and Slow Economic Growth in the Lower South Region, 1720-1800

w12043 Howard Bodenhorn
Urban Poverty, School Attendance, and Adolescent Labor Force Attachment: Some Historical Evidence

w12035 Michael D. Bordo
Peter L. Rousseau

Legal-Political Factors and the Historical Evolution of the Finance-Growth Link

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

w11953 Claudia Goldin
The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family

w11931 Jeremy Atack
Fred Bateman
Robert Margo

Steam Power, Establishment Size, and Labor Productivity Growth in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing

w11927 Zeynep Hansen
Marc T. Law

The Political Economy of "Truth-in-Advertising" Regulation During the Progressive Era

w11919 Sung Won Kang
Hugh Rockoff

Capitalizing Patriotism: The Liberty Loans of World War I


2005
w11908 Lee J. Alston
Jeffery A. Jenkins
Tomas Nonnenmacher

Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873

w11897 Michael D. Bordo
Christopher M. Meissner

The Role of Foreign Currency Debt in Financial Crises: 1880-1913 vs. 1972-1997

w11884 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later

w11868 Farley Grubb
The Net Asset Position of the U.S. National Government, 1784-1802: Hamilton's Blessing or the Spoils of War?

w11866 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies

w11857 Edward L. Glaeser
Bryce A. Ward

Myths and Realities of American Political Geography

w11834 Ricardo Caballero
Arvind Krishnamurthy

Financial System Risk and Flight to Quality

w11825 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps

w11795 Natalia Chernyshoff
David S. Jacks
Alan M. Taylor

Stuck on Gold: Real Exchange Rate Volatility and the Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard

w11784 Farley Grubb
Two Theories of Money Reconciled: The Colonial Puzzle Revisited with New Evidence

w11783 Farley Grubb
The U.S. Constitution and Monetary Powers: An Analysis of the 1787 Constitutional Convention and Constitutional Transformation of the Nation's Monetary System Emerged

w11778 Robert J. Gordon
The 1920s and the 1990s in Mutual Reflection

w11754 Trevon D. Logan
The Transformation of Hunger: The Demand for Calories Past and Present

w11734 Howard Bodenhorn
Usury Ceilings, Relationships and Bank Lending Behavior: Evidence from Nineteenth Century

w11732 Howard Bodenhorn
Christopher S. Ruebeck

Colorism and African American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South

w11730 David Clingingsmith
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Mughal Decline, Climate Change, and Britain's Industrial Ascent: An Integrated Perspective on India's 18th and 19th Century Deindustrialization

w11714 Michael D. Bordo
Review of A History of the Federal Reserve. Volume 1 (2003) by Allan H. Meltzer

w11695 Robert Cull
Lance E. Davis
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Historical Financing of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

w11654 Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

The Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpterian Story?

w11634 Barry Eichengreen
Muge Adalet

Current Account Reversals: Always a Problem?

w11586 Michael D. Bordo
Angela Redish

Seventy Years of Central Banking: The Bank of Canada in International Context, 1935-2005

w11565 Reuven Glick
Alan M. Taylor

Collateral Damage: Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War

w11556 Lance E. Davis
Larry Neal
Eugene N. White

The Highest Price Ever: The Great NYSE Seat Sale of 1928-1929 and Capacity Constraints

w11548 Robert J. Gordon
Apparel Prices 1914-93 and the Hulten/Brueghel Paradox

w11482 Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Gregory W. Stutes

Reexamining the Distribution of Wealth in 1870

w11472 Kris James Mitchener
Marc D. Weidenmier

Supersanctions and Sovereign Debt Repayment

w11470 Megan MacGarvie
Jeffrey L. Furman

Early Academis Science and the Birth of Industrial Research Laboratories in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry

w11427 Joseph P. Ferrie
Werner Troesken

Death and the City: Chicago's Mortality Transition, 1850-1925

w11397 John Joseph Wallis
Barry R. Weingast

Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National Government Financed Economic Development in the Antebellum Era

w11383 Michael D. Bordo
Historical Perspective on Global Imbalances

w11350 Antonio Geldson de Carvalho
Charles W. Calomiris
Joao Amaro de Matos

Venture Capital as Human Resource Management

w11344 Kevin H. O'Rourke
The Worldwide Economic Impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

w11336 Barry Eichengreen
Sterling's Past, Dollar's Future: Historical Perspectives on Reserve Currency Competition

w11324 Joseph P. Ferrie
The End of American Exceptionalism? Mobility in the U.S. Since 1850

w11319 William O. Brown
Richard C. K. Burdekin
Marc D. Weidenmier

Volatility in an Era of Reduced Uncertainty: Lessons from Pax Britannica

w11295 David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser
Jacob L. Vigdor

Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation

w11291 Mark Carlson
Kris James Mitchener

Branch Banking, Bank Competition, and Financial Stability

w11253 Jason Long
Joseph Ferrie

A Tale of Two Labor Markets: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850

w11246 Price V. Fishback
Michael R. Haines
Shawn Kantor

Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief during the Great Depression

w11233 Robert W. Fogel
Changes in the Physiology of Aging during the Twentieth Century

w11231 Lee J. Alston
Joseph P. Ferrie

Time on the Ladder: Career Mobility in Agriculture, 1890-1938

w11206 Sukkoo Kim
Industrialization and Urbanization: Did the Steam Engine Contribute to the Growth of Cities in the United States?

w11173 Michael Bordo
Christopher Meissner

Financial Crises, 1880-1913: The Role of Foreign Currency Debt

w11157 Joseph H. Davis
An Improved Annual Chronology of U.S. Business Cycles since the 1790's

w11125 Robert W. Fogel
RECONSIDERING EXPECTATIONS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AFTER

w11117 J. Ernesto Lopez-Cordova
Christopher M. Meissner

The Globalization of Trade and Democracy, 1870-2000

w11113 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Ethan G. Lewis

Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws

w11096 David Cutler
Grant Miller

Water, Water, Everywhere: Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities

w11093 Boyan Jovanovic
Peter L. Rousseau

General Purpose Technologies

w11080 John Joseph Wallis
Price Fishback
Shawn Kantor

Politics, Relief, and Reform: The Transformation of America's Social Welfare System during the New Deal

w11058 Price Fishback
The Irony of Reform: Did Large Employers Subvert Workplace Safety Reform, 1869 to 1930?

w11057 Stanley L. Engerman
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Colonialism, Inequality, and Long-Run Paths of Development


2004
w11013 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen

w10993 Richard H. Steckel
Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood: Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves

w10984 Marc T. Law
Gary D. Libecap

The Determinants of Progressive Era Reform: The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906

w10966 B. Zorina Khan
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth: Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930

w10965 Stanley Engerman
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Digging the Dirt at Public Expense: Governance in the Building of the Erie Canal and Other Public Works

w10961 Ted Juhl
William Miles
Marc D. Weidenmier

Covered Interest Arbitrage: Then vs. Now

w10960 Marc Weidenmier
Gunboats, Reputation, and Sovereign Repayment: Lessons from the Southern Confederacy

w10952 John Joseph Wallis
The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American Political and Economic History

w10951 Charles W. Calomiris
Joseph R. Mason

Resolving the Puzzle of the Underissuance of National Bank Notes

w10924 John Landon-Lane
Hugh Rockoff

Monetary Policy and Regional Interest Rates in the United States, 1880-2002

w10923 Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Margaret Levenstein
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Financing Invention During the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920

w10902 Dora L. Costa
Race and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

w10900 Naomi Lamoreaux
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States Before the Great Depression

w10886 William Hutchinson
Robert A. Margo

The Impact of the Civil War on Capital Intensity and Labor Productivity in Southern Manufacturing

w10873 Melissa A. Thomasson
Jaret Treber

From Home to Hospital: The Evolution of Childbirth in the United States, 1927-1940

w10833 Michael D. Bordo
Andrew Filardo

Deflation and Monetary Policy in a Historical Perspective: Remembering the Past or Being Condemned to Repeat It?

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

w10793 Jeremy Greenwood
Gokce Uysal

New Goods and the Transition to a New Economy

w10791 Matthew Gentzkow
Edward L. Glaeser
Claudia Goldin

The Rise of the Fourth Estate: How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered

w10778 Carol H. Shiue
Wolfgang Keller

Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution

w10775 Edward L. Glaeser
Claudia Goldin

Corruption and Reform: An Introduction

w10753 John Joseph Wallis
Richard E. Sylla
Arthur Grinath III

Sovereign Debt and Repudiation: The Emerging-Market Debt Crisis in the U.S. States, 1839-1843

w10729 Kris James Mitchener
Marc D. Weidenmier

Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary

w10728 Aimee Chin
Chinhui Juhn
Peter Thompson

Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912

w10704 Michael D. Bordo
David C. Wheelock

Monetary Policy and Asset Prices: A Look Back at Past U.S. Stock Market Booms

w10702 Peter L. Rousseau
A Common Currency: Early U.S. Monetary Policy and the Transition to the Dollar

w10680 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

w10662 Robert J. Gordon
Two Centuries of Economic Growth: Europe Chasing the American Frontier

w10654 Howard Bodenhorn
Free Banking and Bank Entry in Nineteenth-Century New York

w10621 Martha J. Bailey
William J. Collins

The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s

w10610 William J. Collins
The Political Economy of Fair Housing Laws Prior to 1968

w10600 Christopher Blattman
Jason Hwang
Jeffrey G. Williamson

The Impact of the Terms of Trade on Economic Development in the Periphery, 1870-1939: Volatility and Secular Change

w10586 David Clingingsmith
Jeffrey G. Williamson

India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule: New Ideas, New Evidence

w10583 Eugene Canjels
Gauri Prakash-Canjels
Alan M. Taylor

Measuring Market Integration: Foreign Exchange Arbitrage and the Gold Standard, 1879-1913

w10582 Douglas Irwin
The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Actions in Historical Perspective

w10580 Hugh Rockoff
Until it's Over, Over There: The U.S. Economy in World War I

w10569 Paul Bergin
Reuven Glick
Alan M. Taylor

Productivity, Tradability, and the Long-Run Price Puzzle

w10497 Barry Eichengreen
Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

w10493 William J. Collins
Robert A. Margo

The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots: Evidence from Property Values

w10479 Howard Bodenhorn
Bank Chartering and Political Corruption in Antebellum New York: Free Banking as Reform

w10475 Kris James Mitchener
Bank Supervision, Regulation, and Instability During the Great Depression

w10467 Marc T. Law
Sukkoo Kim

Specialization and Regulation: The Rise of Professionals and the Emergence of Occupational Licensing Regulation

w10451 John Joseph Wallis
Constitutions, Corporations, and Corruption: American States and Constitutional Change

w10431 Michael D. Bordo
Joseph G Haubrich

The Yield Curve, Recessions and the Credibility of the Monetary Regime: Long Run Evidence 1875-1997

w10425 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Shame and Ostracism: Union Army Deserters Leave Home

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

w10396 Maurice Obstfeld
Jay C. Shambaugh
Alan M. Taylor

The Trilemma in History: Tradeoffs among Exchange Rates, Monetary Policies, and Capital Mobility

w10364 Stephen N. Broadberry
Douglas A. Irwin

Labor Productivity in Britain and America During the Nineteenth Century

w10346 B. Zorina Khan
Technological Innovations and Endogenous Changes in U.S. Legal Institutions, 1790-1920

w10335 Claudia Goldin
From the Valley to the Summit: The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women's Work

w10331 Claudia Goldin
The Long Road to the Fast Track: Career and Family

w10329 Michael D. Bordo
John Landon Lane
Angela Redish

Good versus Bad Deflation: Lessons from the Gold Standard Era

w10311 Robert W. Fogel
Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Disease during the Course of the Twentieth Century

w10299 Richard H. Steckel
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America

w10288 Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Legal Regime and Business's Organizational Choice: A Comparison of France and the United States

w10271 B. Zorina Khan
Does Copyright Piracy Pay? The Effects of U.S. International Copyright Laws on the Market for Books, 1790-1920

w10243 William J. Collins
Robert A. Margo

The Labor Market Effects of the 1960s Riots


2003
w10183 Robert J. Shiller
The Invention of Inflation-Indexed Bonds in Early America

w10171 Michael D. Bordo
Robert D. Dittmar
William T. Gavin

Gold, Fiat Money, and Price Stability

w10166 Edward L. Glaeser
Reinventing Boston: 1640-2003

w10108 Namsuk Kim
John Joseph Wallis

The Market for American State Government Bonds in Britain and the United States, 1830-1843

w10075 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence Katz

Mass Secondary Schooling and the State

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

w10035 Chulhee Lee
Health and Wealth Accumulation: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century America

w9990 Rebecca Menes
Corruption in Cities: Graft and Politics in American Cities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

w9989 Stanley L. Engerman
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Institutional and Non-Institutional Explanations of Economic Differences

w9977 Susan Averett
Howard Bodenhorn
Justas Staisiunas

Unemployment Risk and Compensating Differential in Late-Nineteenth Century New Jersey Manufacturing

w9962 Howard Bodenhorn
Christopher S. Ruebeck

The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

w9958 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The "Virtues" of the Past: Education in the First Hundred Years of the New Republic

w9944 Douglas A. Irwin
Joseph H. Davis

Trade Disruptions and America's Early Industrialization

w9943 Douglas A. Irwin
The Aftermath of Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures"

w9941 Robert W. Fogel
Changes in the Process of Aging During the Twentieth Century: Findings and Procedures of the Early Indicators Project

w9940 Christopher Blattman
Jason Hwang
Jeffrey G. Williamson

The Terms of Trade and Economic Growth in the Periphery 1870-1938

w9923 Jeremy Atack
Fred Bateman
Robert A. Margo

Capital Deepening in American Manufacturing, 1850-1880

w9909 Petra Moser
How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World Fairs

w9869 Peter H. Lindert
Why the Welfare State Looks Like a Free Lunch

w9868 Chiaki Moriguchi
Did American Welfare Capitalists Breach their Implicit Contracts? Preliminary Findings from Company-level Data, 1920-1940

w9866 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

A New Measure of Monetary Shocks: Derivation and Implications

w9860 Michael D. Bordo
Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur

Why didn't France follow the British Stabilization after World War One?

w9854 Paul W. Rhode
After the War Boom: Reconversion on the U.S. Pacific Coast, 1943-49

w9841 Michael D. Bordo
Christopher Meissner
Angela Redish

How "Original Sin" was Overcome: The Evolution of External Debt Denominated in Domestic Currencies in the United States and the British Dominions

w9792 Christopher Meissner
Committee Structure and the Success of Connected Lending in Nineteenth Century New England Banks

w9771 Robert W. Fogel
Secular Trends in Physiological Capital: Implications for Equity in Health Care

w9770 William J. Collins
Robert A. Margo

Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

w9752 Howard Bodenhorn
Just and Reasonable Treatment: Racial Treatment in the Terms of Pauper Apprenticeship in Antebellum Maryland

w9749 Peter H. Lindert
Voice and Growth: Was Churchill Right?

w9742 Hugh Rockoff
Prodigals and Projecture: An Economic History of Usury Laws in the United States from Colonial Times to 1900

w9713 Michael D. Bordo
Anna J. Schwartz

IS-LM and Monetarism

w9687 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Luis Bertola

Globalization in Latin America Before 1940

w9656 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Was It Stolper-Samuelson, Infant Industry or Something Else? World Trade Tariffs 1789-1938

w9654 Michael D. Bordo
Exchange Rate Regime Choice in Historical Perspective

w9624 Charles Calomiris
Joseph R. Mason

How to Restructure Failed Banking Systems: Lessons from the U.S. in the 1930's and Japan in the 1990's

w9616 Doulgas A. Irwin
New Estimates of the Average Tariff of the United States, 1790-1820

w9612 Alan L. Olmstead
Paul W. Rhode

Hog Round Marketing, Seed Quality, and Government Policy: Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production, 1920-1960

w9594 Sukkoo Kim
Robert A. Margo

Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography

w9593 Dora L. Costa
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison

w9580 Alan M. Taylor
Foreign Capital in Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

w9562 William J. Collins
The Housing Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1960-970

w9559 Chiaki Moriguchi
Implicit Contracts, the Great Depression, and Institutional Change: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Japanese Employment Relations, 1920-1940

w9551 Rajeev Dehejia
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Why Does Financial Development Matter? The United States from 1900 to 1940

w9550 Chulhee Lee
Labor Market Status of Older Males in the United States, 1880-1940

w9549 Werner Troesken
Lead Water Pipes and Infant Mortality in Turn-of-the-Century Massachusetts

w9531 Saif I. Shah Mohammed
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Freight Rates and Productivity Gains in British Tramp Shipping 1869-1950

w9522 Hugh Rockoff
Deflation, Silent Runs, and Bank Holidays, in the Great Contraction

w9520 Michael D. Bordo
Angela Redish

Is Deflation depressing? Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard

w9519 Richard H. Steckel
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists?

w9511 Margaret Levenstein
Valerie Suslow
Lynda Oswald

International Price-Fixing Cartels and Developing Countries: A Discussion of Effects and Policy Remedies

w9457 Gerardo della Paolera
Alan M. Taylor

Gaucho Banking Redux

w9445 Kris James Mitchener
Ian W. McLean

The Productivity of U.S. States Since 1880


2002
w9401 Michael A. Clemens
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Closed Jaguar, Open Dragon: Comparing Tariffs in Latin America and Asia before World War II

w9396 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Changes in the Value of Life: 1940-1980

w9345 Maurice Obstfeld
Alan M. Taylor

Sovereign Risk, Credibility and the Gold Standard: 1870-1913 versus 1925-31

w9333 Peter L. Rousseau
Historical Perspectives on Financial Development and Economic Growth

w9326 Alan M. Taylor
Globalization, Trade, and Development: Some Lessons From History

w9279 Boyan Jovanovic
Peter L. Rousseau

Mergers as Reallocation

w9276 Barry Eichengreen
Still Fettered After All These Years

w9274 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar Stabilization Policy

w9259 Stanley L Engerman
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economics

w9233 Christopher M. Meissner
A New World Order: Explaining the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard

w9230 Marc D. Weidenmier
Richard C.K. Burdekin

Suppressing Asset Price Inflation: The Confederate Experience, 1861-1865

w9227 Bruce Sacerdote
Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

w9182 Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Path Dependence and the Origins of Cotton Textile Manufacturing in New England

w9181 Michael A. Clemens
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Why Did the Tariff-Growth Correlation Reverse After 1950?

w9176 Kerry A. Odell
Marc D. Weidenmier

Real Shock, Monetary Aftershock: The San Francisco Earthquake and the Panic of 1907

w9167 Melissa A. Thomasson
Did Blue Cross and Blue Shield Suffer from Adverse Selection? Evidence from the 1950s

w9161 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization

w9159 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?

w9147 Larry Neal
Marc Weidenmier

Crises in the Global Economy from Tulips to Today: Contagion and Consequences

w9042 Michael R. Haines
Ethnic Differences in Demographic Behavior in the United States: Has There Been Convergence?

w9029 Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Daniel M.G. Raff
Peter Temin

Beyond Markets and Hierarchies: Toward a New Synthesis of American Business History

w9019 Michael D. Bordo
Antu Panini Murshid

Globalization and Changing Patterns in the International Transmission of Shocks in Financial Markets

w9017 Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Intermediaries in the U.S. Market for Technology, 1870-1920

w9011 John Landon-Lane
Eugene N. White
Adam Klug

How Could Everyone Have Been So Wrong? Forecasting the Great Depression with the Railroads

w8999 John H. Coatsworth
Jeffrey G. Williamson

The Roots of Latin American Protectionism: Looking Before the Great Depression

w8998 Ximena Clark
Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Where Do U.S. Immigrants Come From, and Why?

w8992 Frederic S. Mishkin
Eugene N. White

U.S. Stock Market Crashes and Their Aftermath: Implications for Monetary Policy

w8985 Claudia Goldin
A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings

w8957 Howard Bodenhorn
The Complexion Gap: The Economic Consequences of Color among Free African Americans in the Rural Antebellum South

w8955 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Jeffrey G. Williamson

From Malthus to Ohlin: Trade, Growth and Distribution Since 1500

w8927 Alan M. Taylor
A Century of Current Account Dynamics

w8915 Claudia Goldin
The Rising (and then Declining) Significance of Gender

w8903 Price V. Fishback
Shawn Kantor
John Joseph Wallis

Can the New Deal's Three R's Be Rehabilitated? A Program-by-Program, County-by-County Analysis

w8902 Price V. Fishback
Michael R. Haines
Shawn Kantor

The Welfare of Children During the Great Depression

w8898 Peter Temin
Teacher Quality and the Future of America

w8863 Alan L. Olmstead
Paul W. Rhode

The Red Queen and the Hard Reds: Productivity Growth in American Wheat, 1800-1940

w8860 Paul W. Rhode
Gallman's Annual Output Series for the United States, 1834-1909

w8857 Sukkoo Kim
The Reconstruction of the American Urban Landscape in the Twentieth Century

w8856 Cormac O Grada
Eugene N. White

Who Panics During Panics? Evidence from a Nineteenth Century Savings Bank

w8846 Maurice Obstfeld
Alan M. Taylor

Globalization and Capital Markets

w8843 Dora L. Costa
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample

w8842 Antoni Estevadeordal
Alan M. Taylor

Testing Trade Theory in Ohlin's Time

w8814 Howard Bodenhorn
Partnership and Hold-Up in Early America

w8800 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

A Rehabilitation of Monetary Policy in the 1950s

w8778 Robert A. Margo
The North-South Wage Gap, Before and After the Civil War

w8751 Douglas A. Irwin
Did Import Substitution Promote Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century?

w8739 Douglas A. Irwin
Interpreting the Tariff-Growth Correlation of the Late Nineteenth Century

w8717 Michael D. Bordo
Anna J. Schwartz

Charles Goodhart's Contributions to the History of Monetary Institutions

w8716 Barry Eichengreen
Michael D. Bordo

Crises Now and Then: What Lessons from the Last Era of Financial Globalization


2001
w8692 Douglas A. Irwin
The Welfare Cost of Autarky: Evidence from the Jeffersonian Trade Embargo, 1807-1809

w8689 Douglas A. Irwin
The Optimal Tax on Antebellum U.S. Cotton Exports

w8676 Andrew Atkeson
Patrick J. Kehoe

The Transition to a New Economy After the Second Industrial Revolution

h0137 Howard Bodenhorn
Short-Term Loans and Long-Term Relationships: Relationship Lending in Early America

w8627 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War

w8595 Hugh Rockoff
The Changing Role of America's Veterans

w8584 Michael D. Bordo
Marc Flandreau

Core, Periphery, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Globalization

w8583 Michael D. Bordo
Michael J. Dueker
David C. Wheelock

Aggregate Price Shocks and Financial Stability: The United Kingdom 1796-1999

w8582 Michael D. Bordo
William G. Dewald

Bond Market Inflation Expectations in Industrial Countries: Historical Comparisons

h0136 John Joseph Wallis
The Property Tax as a Coordinating Device: Financing Indiana's Mammoth Internal Improvement System, 1835 to 1842

w8542 Richard H. Steckel
Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe

w8512 Stanley L. Engerman
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World

w8485 Nathan Rosenberg
Manuel Trajtenberg

A General Purpose Technology at Work: The Corliss Steam Engine in the late 19th Century US

w8474 Claudia Goldin
Maria Shim

Making a Name

w8460 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson

Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

w8459 Michael A. Clemens
Jeffrey G. Williamson

A Tariff-Growth Paradox? Protection's Impact the World Around 1875-1997

w8429 Michael D. Bordo
Ronald MacDonald

The Inter-War Gold Exchange Standard: Credibility and Monetary Independence

w8408 Ian W. McLean
Alan M. Taylor

Australian Growth: A California Perspective

h0135 Joseph P. Ferrie
The Poor and the Dead: Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the U.S., 1850-1860

w8375 Peter C. Mancall
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Thomas Weiss

Agricultural Labor Productivity in the Lower South, 1720-1800

h0134 Michael R. Haines
The Urban Mortality Transition in the United States, 1800-1940

w8323 Peter L. Rousseau
Richard Sylla

Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization

w8310 William J. Collins
The Labor Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1940-1960

w8295 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Understanding the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998

w8287 Daron Acemoglu
Directed Technical Change

w8283 Price V. Fishback
William C. Horrace
Shawn Kantor

Do Federal Programs Affect Internal Migration? The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility During the Great Depression

w8239 Claudia Goldin
The Human Capital Century and American Leadership: Virtues of the Past

w8232 Sukkoo Kim
Markets and Multiunit Firms from an American Historical Perspective

w8228 Peter H. Lindert
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Does Globalization Make the World More Unequal?

h0133 John Joseph Wallis
What Caused the Crisis of 1839?

w8188 Yael S. Hadass
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Terms of Trade Shocks and Economic Performance 1870-1940: Prebisch and Singer Revisited

w8186 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Jeffrey G. Williamson

After Columbus: Explaining the Global Trade Boom 1500-1800

w8166 Boyan Jovanovic
Peter L. Rousseau

Vintage Organization Capital

w8113 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Christina D. Romer

Was the Federal Reserve Fettered? Devaluation Expectations in the 1932 Monetary Expansion

w8108 Price V. Fishback
William C. Horrace
Shawn Kantor

The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Local Economic Activity: An Examination of Retail Sales, 1929-1939

w8100 Michael Bordo
Anna J. Schwartz

From the Exchange Stabilization Fund to the International Monetary Fund

w8081 Boyan Jovanovic
Peter L. Rousseau

Why Wait? A Century of Life Before IPO

h0132 Leonard Caruana
Hugh Rockoff

A Wolfram in Sheep's Clothing: U.S. Economic Warfare in Spain, 1940-1944


2000
w8028 Michael A. Clemens
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Where did British Foreign Capital Go? Fundamentals, Failures and the Lucas Paradox: 1870-1913

w8012 Alan M. Taylor
A Century of Purchasing-Power Parity

w8000 Dora L. Costa
Understanding Mid-Life and Older Age Mortality Declines: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

h0131 Lee J. Alston
Ruth Dupre
Tomas Nonnenmacher

Social Reformers and Regulation: The Prohibition of Cigarettes in the U.S. and Canada

w7947 Alan L. Olmstead
Paul W. Rhode

The Diffusion of the Tractor in American Agriculture: 1910-60

w7946 Paul W. Rhode
Koleman S. Strumpf

A Historical Test of the Tiebout Hypothesis: Local Heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990

w7939 Chiaki Moriguchi
The Evolution of Employment Relations in U.S. and Japanese Manufacturing Firms, 1900-1960: A Comparative Historical and Institutional Analysis

w7932 Jeremy Atack
Fred Bateman
Robert A. Margo

Rising Wage Dispersion Across American Manufacturing Establishments, 1850-1880

h0130 Michael R. Haines
Lee A. Craig
Thomas Weiss

"Development, Health, Nutrition, and Mortality: The Case of the 'Antebellum Puzzle' in the United States"

w7919 Charles W. Calomiris
Joseph R. Mason

Causes of U.S. Bank Distress During the Depression

w7900 Michael D. Bordo
Antu P. Murshid

Are Financial Crises Becoming Increasingly More Contagious? What is the Historical Evidence on Contagion?

h0129 Roger L. Ransom
Richard Sutch

One Kind of Freedom: Reconsidered (and Turbo Charged)

w7825 Douglas A. Irwin
Peter Temin

The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles Revisited

w7787 Robert W. Fogel
Simon S. Kuznets: April 30, 1901-July 9, 1985

w7784 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World

w7771 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

w7749 William J. Collins
Robert A. Margo

Race and the Value of Owner-Occupied Housing, 1940-1990

w7745 Douglas A. Irwin
Marko Tervio

Does Trade Raise Income? Evidence from the Twentieth Century

w7724 Michael D. Bordo
Harold James

The International Monetary Fund: Its Present Role in Historical Perspective

h0128 William J. Collins
The Political Economy of Race, 1940-1964: The Adoption of State-Level Fair Employment Legislation

h0127 Gary D. Libecap
Zeynep Kocabiyik Hansen

"Rain Follows the Plow" and Dryfarming Doctrine: The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925

h0126 Peter C. Mancall
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Thomas Weiss

Conjectural Estimates of Economic Growth in the Lower South, 1720 to 1800

w7701 Michael D. Bordo
Anna J. Schwartz

Measuring Real Economic Effects of Bailouts: Historical Perspectives on How Countries in Financial Distress Have Fared With and Without Bailouts

w7652 Michael D. Bordo
Michael J. Dueker
David C. Wheelock

Aggregate Price Shocks and Financial Instability: An Historical Analysis

w7650 Dora L. Costa
American Living Standards, 1888-1994: Evidence From Consumer Expenditures

w7641 Douglas A. Irwin
Ohlin Versus Stolper-Samuelson?

w7640 Douglas A. Irwin
Could the U.S. Iron Industry Have Survived Free Trade After the Civil War?

w7639 Douglas A. Irwin
Tariffs and Growth in Late Nineteenth Century America

w7638 Douglas A. Irwin
How Did the United States Become a Net Exporter of Manufactured Goods?

w7632 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Jeffrey G. Williamson

When Did Globalization Begin?

h0125 Michael D. Bordo
Michael J. Dueker
David C. Wheelock

Aggregate Price Shocks and Financial Instability: An Historical Analysis

h0124 Hugh Rockoff
How Long Did It Take the United States to Become an Optimal Currency Area?

w7608 Dora L. Costa
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor

w7605 Dora L. Costa
Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change

w7602 J. Bradford DeLong
Cornucopia: The Pace of Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century

w7577 Alan M. Taylor
Potential Pitfalls for the Purchasing-Power-Parity Puzzle? Sampling and Specification Biases in Mean-Reversion Tests of the Law of One Price

h0123 Peter C. Mancall
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Thomas Weiss

South Carolina Slave Prices, 1722-1809

w7569 J. Bradford DeLong
The Shape of Twentieth Century Economic History

w7543 Melissa A. Thomasson
The Importance of Group Coverage: How Tax Policy Shaped U.S. Health Insurance

w7528 Peter L. Rousseau
Jacksonian Monetary Policy, Specie Flows, and the Panic of 1837

w7527 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions

h0122 Richard H. Steckel
Carolyn M. Moehling

Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses

h0121 Michael R. Haines
Richard H. Steckel

Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living: Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States

h0120 Peter C. Mancall
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Thomas Weiss

Slave Prices in the Lower South, 1722-1815

h0068 Alan M. Taylor
Peopling the Pampa: On the Impact of Mass Migration to the River Plate, 1870-1914


1999
w7448 Peter L. Rousseau
Richard Sylla

Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth

w7438 Eugene N. White
The Costs and Consequences of the Napoleonic Reparations

w7411 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Jeffrey G. Williamson

The Heckscher-Ohlin Model Between 1400 and 2000: When It Explained Factor Price Convergence, When It Did Not, and Why

w7394 Alan M. Taylor
Latin America and Foreign Capital in the Twentieth Century: Economics, Politics, and Institutional Change

w7386 Gerardo della Paolera
Alan M. Taylor

Internal Versus External Convertibility and Developing-Country FinancialCrises: Lessons from the Argentine Bank Bailout of the 1930's

w7365 Michael D. Bordo
Lars Jonung

The Future of EMU: What Does the History of Monetary Unions Tell Us?

w7277 William J. Collins
Robert A. Margo

Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990

w5432 Alan M. Taylor
On the Costs of Inward-Looking Development: Historical Perspectives on Price Distortions, Growth, and Divergence in Latin American from 1930s - 1980s

h0119 Claudia Goldin
A Brief History of Education in the United States

h0118 Richard H. Steckel
Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective

w7224 Matthew Higgins
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Explaining Inequality the World Round: Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, andOpenness

w7217 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Education and Income in the Early 20th Century: Evidence from the Prairies

w7195 Michael D. Bordo
Barry Eichengreen
Douglas A. Irwin

Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hunderd Years Ago?

w7187 Eugene N. White
California Banking in the Nineteenth Century: The Art and Method of the Bank of A. Levy

w7186 Michael Bordo
Michael Edelstein
Hugh Rockoff

Was Adherence to the Gold Standard a "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" During the Interwar Period?

w6313 Dora L. Costa
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight

w6217 Dora L. Costa
A House of Her Own: Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women

w7148 Dora L. Costa
American Living Standards: Evidence from Recreational Expenditures

w7146 Jeffrey G. Williamson
The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically QuiescentEconomies

w7145 William J. Collins
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Capital Goods Prices, Global Capital Markets and Accumulation: 1870-1950

w7126 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

w7120 Sukkoo Kim
Urban Development in the United States, 1690-1990

w7109 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990

w7107 Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Inventive Activity and the Market for Technology in the United States, 1840-1920

w5960 Maurice Obstfeld
Alan M. Taylor

The Great Depression as a Watershed: International Capital Mobility over the Long Run

w7090 Susanto Basu
Alan M. Taylor

Business Cycles in International Historical Perspective

w5497 Michael D. Bordo
Tamim Bayoumi

Getting Pegged: Comparing the 1879 and 1925 Gold Resumptions

h0117 Peter L. Rousseau
Share Liquidity and Industrial Growth in an Emerging Market: The Case of New England, 1854-1897

w6975 Rebecca Menes
The Effect of Patronage Politics on City Government in American Cities, 1900-1910

w6948 Christina D. Romer
Changes in Business Cycles: Evidence and Explanations

h0116 William J. Collins
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Capital Goods Prices, Global Capital Markets and Accumulation, 1870-1950

h0115 Jeffrey G. Williamson
The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies

h0114 Peter Temin
The Industrialization of New England, 1830 - 1880

h0113 Joshua L. Rosenbloom
The Challenges of Economic Maturity: New England, 1880 - 1940


1998
w6862 Michael D. Bordo
Carlos A. Vegh

What If Alexander Hamilton Had Been Argentinean? A Comparison of the Early Monetary Experiences of Argentina and the United States

w6859 Dora L. Costa
Understanding the Twentieth Century Decline in Chronic Conditions Among Older Men

w6855 Dora L. Costa
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938 - 1950

w6835 Dougas A. Irwin
Did Late Nineteenth Century U.S. Tariffs Promote Infant Industries? Evidence from the Tinplate Industry

h0112 Joseph M. Prince
Richard H. Steckel

The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century

h0111 Myron P. Gutmann
Michael R. Haines
W. Parker Frisbie
K. Stephen Blanchard

Intra-Ethnic Diversity in Hispanic Child Mortality, 1890-1910

h0110 Peter Temin
The Stability of the American Business Elite

h0108 Roderick Floud
Height, Weight, and Body Mass of the British Population Since 1820

h0109 Robert A. Margo
Labor Market Integration Before the Civil War

w6692 Peter Temin
The Causes of American Business Cycles: An Essay in Economic Historiography

h0107 Michael R. Haines
Health, Height, Nutrition, and Mortality: Evidence on the "Antebellum Puzzle" from Union Army Recruits in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

w6649 Charles W. Calormiris
Berry Wilson

Bank Capital and Portfolio Management: The 1930's Capital Crunch and Scramble to Shed Risk

w6643 Robert A. Margo
Labor Market Integration Before the Civil War

w6637 Randall S. Kroszner
Philip E. Strahan

What Drives Deregulation? Economics and Politics of the Relaxation of Bank Branching Restrictions

w6550 Clifford G. Holderness
Randall S. Kroszner
Dennis P. Sheehan

Were the Good Old Days That Good? Changes in Managerial Stock Ownership Since the Great Depression

w6504 Dora L. Costa
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991

w6439 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Human Capital and Social Capital: The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940

w5429 Dora L. Costa
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrange- ments

w6425 Sukkoo Kim
The Rise of Multiunit Firms in U.S. Manufacturing

w6419 Dora L. Costa
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View

w4412 Andrew B. Abel
Janice C. Eberly

An Exact Soultion for the Investment and Market Value of a Firm Facing Uncertainty, Adjustment Costs, and Irreversibility


1997
w6335 Sukkoo Kim
Economic Integration and Convergence: U.S. Regions, 1840-1987

w6322 Sukkoo Kim
Regions, Resources, and Economic Geography: Sources of U.S. Regional Comparative Advantage, 1880-1987

w6302 Alan M. Taylor
Argentina and the World Capital Market: Saving, Investment, and International Capital Mobility in the Twentieth Century

h0106 Susan B. Carter
Richard Sutch

Historical Perspectives on the Economic Consequences of Immigration into the United States

w6288 Joshua L. Rosenbloom
William A. Sundstrom

The Sources of Regional Variation in the Severity of the Great Depression: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing, 1919-1937

h0105 Price V. Fishback
Operations of "Unfettered" Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century

w6244 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Growth, Distribution and Demography: Some Lessons from History

w6239 Douglas A. Irwin
Higher Tariffs, Lower Revenues? Analyzing the Fiscal Aspects of the "Great Tariff Debate of 1888"

h0104 Peter Temin
The American Business Elite in Historical Perspective

w6144 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Why the United States Led in Education: Lessons from Secondary School Expansion, 1910 to 1940

h0103 Jeremy Atack
Peter L. Rousseau

Business Activity and the Boston Stock Market, 1835-1869

w6115 Michael D. Bordo
Ronald MacDonald

Violations of the `Rules of the Game' and the Credibility of the Classical Gold Standard, 1880-1914

w6112 Douglas A. Irwin
Randall S. Kroszner

Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in the Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization, 1934-1945

w6073 Gauri Prakash
Alan M. Taylor

Measuring Market Integration: A Model of Arbitrage with an Econometric Application to the Gold Standard, 1879-1913

w6071 Michael D. Bordo
Christopher J. Erceg
Charles N. Evans

Money, Sticky Wages, and the Great Depression

w6063 Eugene N. White
The Legacy of Deposit Insurance: The Growth, Spread, and Cost of Insuring Financial Intermediaries

w6060 Barry Eichengreen
Peter Temin

The Gold Standard and the Great Depression

w6059 William J. Collins
Kevin H. O'Rourke
Jeffrey Williamson

Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

w6054 Dora L. Costa
Less of a Luxury: The Rise of Recreation since 1888

h0102 Daniel Raff
Peter Temin

Sears Roebuck in the Twentieth Century: Competition, Complementarities, and the Problem of Wasting Assets

h0101 Robert A. Margo
Wages in California During the Gold Rush

w5986 Gary D. Libecap
The Great Depression and the Regulating State: Federal Government Regulation of Agriculture: 1884-1970

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

h0098 Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

w5963 Charles W. Calomiris
David C. Wheelock

Was the Great Depression a Watershed for American Monetary Policy?

w5949 Jeffrey A. Miron
David N. Weil

The Genesis and Evolution of Social Security

h0097 Arthur Grinath
III
John Joseph Wallis
Richard Sylla

Debt, Default, and Revenue Structure: The American State Debt Crisis in the Early 1840s

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

w5938 Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Location and Technological Change in the American Glass Industry During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

w4860 Michael D. Bordo
Anna J. Schwartz

The Specie Standard as a Contingent Rule: Some Evidence for Core and Peripheral Countries, 1880-1990

w5895 Douglas A. Irwin
From Smoot-Hawley to Reciprocal Trade Agreements: Changing the Course of U.S. Trade Policy in the 1930s

w5889 Katherine Baicker
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

A Distinctive System: Origins and Impact of U.S. Unemployment Compensation

w5883 Michael D. Bordo
Barry Eichengreen

Implications of the Great Depression for the Development of the International Monetary System


1996
w5867 Ashley S. Timmer
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Racism, Xenophobia or Markets? The Political Economy of Immigration Policy Prior to the Thirties

w5840 Price V. Fishback
Shawn Everett Kantor

The Adoption of Workers' Compensation in the United States 1900-1930

w5340 Michael D. Bordo
Hugh Rockoff

The Gold Standard as a `Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval'

h0095 Price V. Fishback
Shawn Everett Kantor

The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910-1930

h0094 Stephen Haber
The Efficiency Consequences of Institutional Change: Financial Market Regulation and Industrial Productivity Growth in Brazil, 1866-1934

h0067 Michael D. Bordo
Angela Redish
Hugh Rockoff

A Comparison of the Stability and Efficiency of the Canadian and American Banking Systems 1870-1925

h0046 Kevin O'Rourke
Alan M. Taylor
Jeffrey G. Williamsmn

Land, Labor and the Wage-Rental Ratio: Factor Price Convergence in the Late Nineteenth Century

w5806 Alan M. Taylor
Sources of Convergence in the Late Nineteenth Century

w5798 Alan M. Taylor
Convergence and International Factor Flows in Theory and History

w5381 Kristen L. Willard
Timothy W. Guinnane
Harvey S. Rosen

Turning Points in the Civil War: Views from the Greenback Market

w5743 Alan M. Taylor
International Capital Mobility in History: The Saving-Investment Relationship

w5742 Alan M. Taylor
International Capital Mobility in History: Purchasing-Power Parity in the Long Run

h0093 Joseph P. Ferrie
Immigrants and Natives: Comparative Economic Performance in the U.S., 1850-60 and 1965-80

h0092 Lynne L. Kiesling
Robert A. Margo

Explaining the Rise in Antebellum Pauperism: New Evidence

h0091 Jeremy Atack
Robert A. Margo

"Location, Location, Location!" The Market for Vacant Urban Land: New York 1835-1900

w5665 Douglas A. Irwin
Changes in U.S. Tariffs: Prices or Policies?

w5657 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity

h0090 John Joseph Wallis
What Determines the Allocation of National Government Grants to the States?

h0089 Robert A. Margo
T. Aldrich Finegan

Compulsory Schooling Legislation and School Attendance in Turn-of-the-Century America: A "Natural Experiment" Approach

w5611 J. Bradford De Long
Keynesianism, Pennsylvania Avenue Style: Some Economic Consequences of the Employment Act of 1946

h0088 Joseph P. Ferrie
The Entry Into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840-60

w5560 Matthew Higgins
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Asian Demography and Foreign Capital Dependence

w4929 Dora L. Costa
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900-1991

w4642 Michael D. Bordo
Dominique Simard
Eugene White

France and the Bretton Woods International Monetary System: 1960-1968

h0087 Roderick Floud
Bernard Harris

Health, Height and Welfare: Britain 1700-1980

h0086 Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Strikebreaking and the Labor Market in the United States, 1881-1874

h0085 Michael R. Haines
Samuel H. Preston

"The Use of the Census to Estimate Childhood Mortality: Comparisons fromthe 1900 and 1910 United States Census Public Use Samples"

h0084 J. Bradford De Long
America's Only Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s

h0083 Hugh Rockoff
The Paradox of Planning in World War II

h0082 Elizabeth B. Field-Hendre
Lee A. Craig

Were Free Southern Farmers "Driven to Indolence" by Slavery? A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach

w5510 Douglas A. Irwin
Randall S. Kroszner

Log-Rolling and Economic Interests in the Passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

w5509 Douglas A. Irwin
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff: A Quantitative Assessment

w5491 Jeffrey G. Williamson
"Globalization and Inequality Past and Present"

h0081 Peter Temin
Two Views of the British Industrial Revolution

h0080 Michael R. Haines
"Long Term Marriage Patterns in the United States from Colonial Times tothe Present"

h0079 Charles W. Calomiris
Carlos D. Ramirez

Financing the American Corporation: The Changing Menu of Financial Rela-tionships

w5443 Paul M. Romer
Why, indeed, in America? Theory, History, and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth

w5442 Charles W. Calomiris
Charles M. Kahn

The Efficiency of Self-Regulated Payments Systems: Learning From the Suffolk System

w5405 Lee J. Alston
Gary D. Libecap
Robert Schneider

The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier

h0078 Joshua L. Rosenbloom
The Extent of the Labor Market in the United States, 1850-1914


1995
w5392 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Jeffrey G. Williamson

"Around the European Periphery 1870-1913: Globalization, Schooling and Growth"

w5389 Robert A. Margo
T. Aldrich Finegan

Changes in the Distribution of Wages, 1940-1950: The Public vs. the Private Sector

h0077 Hugh Rockoff
From Plowshares to Swords: The American Economy in World War II

w5368 Janet Currie
Joseph Ferrie

Strikes and the Law in the U.S., 1881-1894: New Evidence on the Origins of American Exceptionalism

h0076 Dora L. Costa
Richard H. Steckel

Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States

w5328 Dora L. Costa
The Political Economy of State Provided Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Evidence from California

h0075 Richard H. Steckel
Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research

h0074 Susan B. Carter
Richard Sutch

Fixing the Facts: Editing of the 1880 U.S. Census of Occupations with Implications for Long-Term Trends and the Sociology of Official Statistics

h0073 Susan B. Carter
Richard Sutch

Myth of the Industrial Scrap Heap: A Revisionist View of Turn-of-the- Century American Retirement

w5276 Alan M. Taylor
Growth and Convergence in the Asia-Pacific Region: On the Role of Openness, Trade and Migration

w5259 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Globalization, Convergence and History

w5202 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The Decline of Non-Competing Groups: Changes in the Premium to Education, 1890 to 1940

h0072 Robert A. Margo
The Farm-Nonfarm Wage Gap in the Antebellum United States: Evidence fromthe 1850 and 1860 Censuses of Social Statistics

h0071 Joseph P. Ferrie
A New Sample of Americans Linked from the 1850 Public Use Micro Sampleofthe Federal Census of Population to the1860 Federal Census Manuscript Sched.

w5188 Claudia Goldin
Career and Family: College Women Look to the Past

w5185 Timothy J. Hutton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

The Impact of Imigration on American Labor Markets Prior to the Quotas

w4537 Dora L. Costa
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America

h0070 Michael R. Haines
Avery M. Guest

Fertility and Marriage in New York State in the Era of the Civil War

h0069 Jeremy Atack
Fred Bateman

Irregular Production and Time-out-of-Work in American Manufacturing Industry in 1870 and 1880: Some Preliminary Estimates

w5112 Kevin O'Rourke
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Open Economy Forces and Late 19th Century Scandinavian Catch-Up

w4415 Michael D. Bordo
Charles L. Evans

Labor Productivity During the Great Depression

w4150 Christina D. Romer
Remeasuring Business Cycles


1994
w4947 Price V. Fishback
Shawn Everett Kantor

Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws?

w4943 Price V. Fishback
Shawn Everett Kantor

Insurance Rationing and the Origins of Workers' Compensation

h0066 Stanley L. Engerman
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Factor Endowments: Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians of the United States

h0065 Claudia Goldin
Cliometrics and the Nobel

h0064 Shawn E. Kantor
A Prelude to the Welfare State: Compulsory State Insurance and Workers' Compensation in Minnesota, Ohio, and Washington, 1911-1919

w4935 Charles W. Calomiris
Christopher Hanes

Historical Macroeconomics and American Macroeconomic History

w4934 Charles W. Calomiris
Joseph R. Mason

Contagion and Bank Failures During the Great Depression: The June 1932 Chicago Banking Panic

h0063 Robert A. Mareo
The Price of Housing in New York City, 1830-1860

h0062 Peter Temin
The Great Depression

w4892 Alan M. Taylor
Domestic Saving and International Capital Flows Reconsidered

h0061 Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Was There a National Labor Market at the End of the Nineteenth Century? Intercity and Interregional Variation in Male Earnings in Manufacturing

h0060 Alan M. Taylor
Three Phases of Argentine Economic Growth

w4848 Charles W. Calomiris
Charles P. Himmelberg
Paul Wachtel

Commercial Paper, Corporate Finance, and the Business Cycle: A Microeconomic Perspective

w4638 Robert W. Fogel
Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy

h0059 Michael R. Haines
Estimated Life Tables for the United States, 1850-1900

w4762 Claudia Goldin
How America Graduated from High School: 1910 to 1960

h0058 Claudia Goldin
Labor Markets in the Twentieth Century

w4711 Alan M. Taylor
Jeffrey G. Williamson

"Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration"

w4710 Robert E. Lipsey
U.S. Foreign Trade and the Balance of Payments, 1800-1913

w4707 Claudia Goldin
The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History

h0055 Dora L. Costa
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates

h0054 Robert W. Fogel
The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today: Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth

w4024 Michael Bordo
Angela Redish

Maximizing Seignorage Revenue During Temporary Suspensions of Convertibility: A Note

w4627 Eugene N. White
Peter Rappoport

The New York Stock Market in the 1920s and 1930s: Did Stock Prices Move Together Too Much?

h0053 Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Employer Recruitment and the Integration of Industrial Labor Markets 1870-1914


1993
h0026 Robert William Fogel
New Sources and New Techniques for the Study of Secular Trends in Nutritional Status, Health, Mortality, and the Process of Aging

h0052 Hugh Rockoff
The Meaning of Money in the Great Depression

h0051 Dora L. Costa
Explaining the Changing Dynamics of Unemployment: Evidence from Civil War Records

w4310 Michael Bordo
The Gold Standard, Bretton Woods and other Monetary Regimes: An Historical Appraisal

h0050 Margaret Levenstein
Price Wars and the Stability of Collusion: A Study of the Pre-World War I Bromine Industry

w4408 Charles W. Calomiris
Corporate-Finance Benefits from Universal Banking: Germany and the United States, 1870-1914

h0049 Margaret Levenstein
Vertical Restraints in the Bromine Cartel: The Role of Distributors in Facilitating Collusion

h0048 Jeffrey G
Williamson
Kevin O'Rourke
Timothy J. Hatton

Mass Migration, Commodity Market Integration and Real Wage Convergence: The Late Nineteenth Century Atlantic Economy

h0047 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Late-Comers to Mass Emigration: The Latin Experience

w4345 Claudia Goldin
The Political Economy of Immigration Restriction in the United States, 1890 to 1921

h0045 T. Aldrich Finegan
Robert A. Margo

Added and Discouraged Workers in the Late 1930s: A Re-Examination

w4033 Michael D. Bordo
The Bretton Woods International Monetary System: An Historical Overview

h0044 Robert A. Margo
Explaining Black-White Wage Convergence, 1940-1950: The Role of the Great Compression

h0012 Robert W. Fogel
Problems in Modeling Complex Dynamic interactions: The Political Realignment of the 1850s


1992
h0043 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

What Drove the Mass Migrations from Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century?

h0042 B. Zorina Khan
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

'Schemes of Practical Utility': Entrepreneurship and Innovation Among 'Great Inventors' in the United States, 1790-1865

w4174 Robert A. Margo
Employment and Unemployment in the 1930s

w4166 Charles W. Calomiris
Greenback Resumption and Silver Risk: The Economics and Politics of Monetary Regime Change in the United States, 1862-1900

h0041 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

International Migration and World Development: A Historical Perspective

h0040 Robert A. Margo
The Labor Force in the Nineteenth Century

w4137 Richard H. Steckel
Jayanthi Krishnan

Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey

h0039 S. Nicolas
Richard H. Steckel

Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland

w4126 George Alter
Claudia Goldin
Elyce Rotella

The Savings of Ordinary Americans: The Philidelphia Saving Fund Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

w4099 Claudia Goldin
The Meaning of College in the Lives of American Women: The Past One-Hundred Years

h0038 Robert W. Fogel
Larry T. Wimmer

Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease, and Death

h0037 Kevin O'Rourke
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Were Heckscher and Ohlin Right? Putting the Factor-Price-Equalization Theorem Back into History

w4075 David Card
Craig A. Olson

Bargaining Power, Strike Duration, and Wage Outcomes: An Analysis of Strikes in the 1880s

w3689 Michael D. Bordo
Peter Rappoport
Anna J. Schwartz

Money versus Credit Rationing: Evidence for the National Banking Era, 1880-1914

w3383 Bennett T. McCallum
Money and Prices in Colonial America: A New Test of Competing Theories

h0036 Jeffrey G. Williamson
The Evolution of Global Labor Markets Since 1830 Background Evidence and Hypotheses

h0035 Robert L. Greenfield
Hugh Rockoff

Gresham's Law Regained

h0034 Robert William Fogel
Toward a New Synthesis on the Role of Economic Issues in the Political Realignment of the 1850s


1991
h0033 Jeremy Atack
Fred Bateman

Whom Did Protective Legislation Protect? Evidence From 1880

h0032 Alan M. Taylor
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Capital Flows to the New World as an Intergenerational Transfer

w3203 Claudia Goldin
The Role of World War II in the Rise of Women's Work

h0031 Michael R. Haines
The Use of Historical Census Data for Mortality and Fertility Research

h0030 Kenneth L. Sokoloff
David Dollar

Agricultural Seasonality and the Organization of Manufacturing During Early Industrialization: The Contrast Between Britain and the United States

h0029 Gary D. Libecap
The Rise of the Chicago Packers and the Origins of Meat Inspection and Antitrust

h0028 Kenneth L. Sokoloff
Georgia C. Villaflor

The Market for Manufacturing Workers During Early Industrialization: The American Northeast, 1820 to 1860

h0027 Robert A. Margo
The Labor Force Participation of Older Americans in 1900: Further Results

w3704 Robert A. Margo
T. Aldrich Finegan

The Decline in Black Teenage Labor Force Participation in the South, 1900-1970: The Role of Schooling

h0025 Jeremy Atack
Fred Bateman

Louis Brandeis, Work and Fatigue at the Start of the Twentieth Century: Prelude to Oregon's Hours Limitation Law

h0024 Richard H. Steckel
Stature and Living Standards in the United States

h0023 Thomas Weiss
Long Term Changes in U.S. Agricultural Output per Worker, 1800 to 1900

h0022 David W. Galenson
Clayne L. Pope

Precedence and Wealth: Evidence from Nineteenth Century Utah

h0021 Michael R. Haines
Allen C. Goodman

A Home of One's Own: Aging and Homeownership in the United States in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

h0020 Stanley Engerman
Claudia Goldin

Seasonality in Nineteenth Century Labor Markets


1990
h0018 Robert A. Margo
The Microeconomics of Depression Unemployment

h0019 Robert A. Margo
Wages and Prices During the Antebellum Period: A Survey and New Evidence

h0011 Hugh Rockoff
The Capital Market in the 1850s

h0017 Robert A. Margo
Segregated Schools and the Mobility Hypothesis: A Model of Local Government Discrimination

h0016 Robert William Fogel
The Conquest of High Mortality and Hunger in Europe and America: Timing and Mechanisms

h0015 Jeremy Atack
Fred Bateman

How Long Was the Workday in 1880?

h0014 Robert A. Margo
The Competitive Dynamics of Racial Exclusion: Employment Segregation in the South, 1900-1950

h0013 Lance E. Davis
Robert E. Gallman
Teresa D. Hutchins

Risk Sharing, Crew Quality, Labor Shares and Wages in the Nineteenth Century American Whaling Industry


1989
w3198 Claudia Goldin
Robert A. Margo

Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets Before the Civil War

h0010 Kenneth L. Sokoloff
B. Zorina Khan

The Democratization of Invention During Early Industrialization: Evidence from the United States, 1790-1846

h0009 Hugh Rockoff
Lessons from the American Experience with Free Banking

h0008 Richard H. Steckel
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860

h0007 Thomas Weiss
Economic Growth Before 1860: Revised Conjectures

h0006 Michael R. Haines
Consumer Behavior and Immigrant Assimilation: A comparison of the United States, Britain and Germany, 1889/1890

h0005 Michael R. Haines
Allen C. Goodman

Buying the American Dream: Housing Demand in the United States in the Late Nineteenth Century

r1176 Robert E. Lucas
Jr.

On the Mechanics of Economic Development

h0004 David W. Galenson
Clayne L. Pope

Economic and Geographic Mobility on the Farming Frontier: Evidence from Appanoose County, Iowa 1850-1870

h0003 Roger L. Ransom
Richard Sutch

The Trend in the Rate of Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1870-1930: A Review of the Evidence

h0002 Michael R. Haines
A State and Local Consumer Price Index for the United States in 1890

h0001 Robert W. Fogel
Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger: Famines, Price Elasticities, Entitlements, Chronic Malnutrition, and Mortality Rates


1988
w2747 Claudia Goldin
Marriage Bars: Discrimination Against Married Women Workers, 1920's to 1950's

w2707 Kenneth L. Sokoloff
Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America: Evidence From Patent Records, 1790 - 1846

w2697 Robert A. Margo
Schooling and the Great Migration


1987
w2477 Lance Davis
Robert E. Gallman
Teresa Hutchins

Productivity in American Whaling: The New Bedford Fleet in the Nineteenth Century

w2461 Robert W. Fogel
Some Notes on the Scientific Methods of Simon Kuznets

w2438 Thomas Weiss
The Farm Labor Force by Region, 1820-1860: Revised Estimates and Implications for Growth

w1675 Rudiger Dornbusch
Stopping Hyperinflation: Lessons from the German Inflation Experience of the 1920s

w2525 Claudia D. Goldin
Robert A. Margo

The Poor at Birth: Infant Auxology and Mortality at Philadelphia's Almshouse Hospital, 1848-1873

w2281 Richard H. Steckel
Household Migration, Urban Growth, and Industrialization: The United States, 1850-1860

w2242 Robert A. Margo
Accounting for Racial Differences in School Attendance in the American South, 1900: The Role of Separate-But-Equal


1986
w1628 Richard H. Steckel
Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: The Case of American Slaves

w2001 Barry Eichengreen
The Political Economy of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

r0748 Moses Abramovitz
Simon Kuznets 1901-1985

w1949 Claudia Goldin
Maximum Hours Legislation and Female Employment in the 1920s: A Reasse ssment

w1888 Claudia Goldin
The Earnings Gap Between Male and Female Workers: An Historical Perspective

w1802 Robert W. Fogel
Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700: Some Additional Preliminary Findings


1985
w1758 Robert A. Margo
Georgia C. Villaflor

The Antebellum "Surge" in Skill Differentials One More Time: New Evidence

w1747 J. R. Kearl
The Covariance Structure of Earnings and Income, Compensatory Behavior and On-the-Job Investments

w1706 David W. Galenson
On the Age at Leaving Home in the Early Nineteenth Century: Evidence from the Lives of New England Manufacturers

w1685 Kenneth L. Sokoloff
Productivity Growth in Manufacturing During Early Industrialization: Evidence from the American Northeast, 1820 to 1860

w1662 Richard H. Steckel
Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves

w1661 Roderick Floud
Kenneth W. Wachter
Annabel Gregory

The Physical State of the British Working Class, 1870-1914: Evidence from Army Recruits

w1620 Robert A. Margo
Education Achievement in Segregated School Systems: The Effects of "Separate-But-Equal"

w1587 John A. James
Shifts in the Nineteenth-Century Phillips Curve Relationship

w1560 Claudia Goldin
Monitoring Costs and Occupational Segregation by Sex: An Historical Analysis

w1541 Robert E. Gallman
The U.S. Capital Stock in the Nineteenth Century

w1540 Richard H. Steckel
Richard A. Jensen

Determinants of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade


1984
w1504 John A. James
Jonathan S. Skinner

The Resolution of the Labor Scarcity Paradox

w1455 James Trussell
Kenneth W. Wachter

Estimating the Covariates of Historical Heights

w1425 J. R. Kearl
Clayne L. Pope

Unobservable Family and Individual Contributions to the Distributions ofIncome and Wealth

w1402 Robert W. Fogel
Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings

w1386 Kenneth L. Sokoloff
Was the Transition from the Artisanal Shop to the Non-Mechanized Fctry Assoc. w/Gains in Effcny?: Evdnc. from the U.S. Mnfctr. Censuses of 1820 & 1850

w1385 Kenneth L. Sokoloff
Investment in Fixed and Working Capital During Early Industrialization: Evidence From U.S. Manufacturing Firms

w1384 Kenneth L. Sokoloff
The Heights of Americans in Three Centuries: Some Economic and Demographic Implications

w1318 Roderick Floud
The Heights of Europeans Since 1750: A New Source For European EconomicHistory


1983
w1251 Claudia Goldin
Life-Cycle Labor Force Participation of Married Women: Historical Evidence and Implications

w1201 Arturo Estrella
Jeffrey C. Fuhrer

Average Marginal Tax Rates U.S. Household Interest and Dividend Income 1954-80

w1200 Robert A. Margo
Accumulation of Property by Southern Blacks Before World War I: Commentand Further Evidence

w1146 J. R. Kearl
Clayne L. Pope

Life-Cycles in Income and Wealth

w0881 Richard H. Steckel
The Economic Foundations of East-West Migration During the Nineteenth Century

w0880 Richard H. Steckel
Height and Per Capita Income


1982
r0314 J. R. Kearl
Clayne L. Pope
Larry T. Wimmer

Household Wealth in a Settlement Economy: Utah, 1850-1870

w0890 Robert W. Fogel
Stanley L. Engerman
Roderick Floud
Richard H. Steckel
James Trussell

Changes in American and British Stature Since the Mid-Eighteenth Century: A Prelimanary Report on the Usefulness of Data on Height...

r0236 Robert W. Fogel
Stanley L. Engerman
James Trussell
Roderick Floud
Clayne L. Pope

The Economics of Mortality in North America, 1650-1910: A Description ofa Research Project


1981
w0795 Claudia Goldin
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from the Manufacturing Censuses

w0754 J. R. Kearl
Clayne L. Pope

Intergenerational Effects of the Distribution of Income and Wealth: The Utah Experience, 1850-1900

w0722 Claudia D. Goldin
Kenneth L. Sokoloff

The Relative Productivity Hypothesis of Industrialization: The American Case, 1820-1850

w0707 Claudia D. Goldin
Donald O. Parsons

Economic Well-Being and Child Labor: The Inter action of Family and Industry

w0692 J. R. Kearl
Clayne L. Pope

Wealth Mobility: The Missing Element


1980
w0529 Claudia D. Goldin
The Historical Evolution of Female Earnings Functions and Occupations


1979
w0375 Claudia D. Goldin
The Work and Wages of Single Women: 1870 to 1920

w0374 Kenneth L. Sokoloff
Georgia C. Villaflor

Colonial and Revolutionary Muster Rolls: Some New Evidence on Nutrition and Migration in Early America


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