Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth

Stanley L. Engerman; Robert E. Gallman

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Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth

Stanley L. Engerman & Robert E. Gallman, editors

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Published Date January 1986

ISBN 0226209288

Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press

Series: Studies in Income and Wealth

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Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman. 2019. Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth. University of Chicago Press. https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/long-term-factors-american-economic-growth.

Front matter, Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth

Author(s): Stanley L. Engerman & Robert E. Gallman

Chapter 1: Introduction to "Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth"

Author(s): Stanley L. Engerman & Robert E. Gallman (p. 1-6)

Chapter 2: New Estimates of Gross National Product, Canada, 1870-1926: Some Implications for Canadian Development

Author(s): M C. Urquhart (p. 9-94)

Chapter 3: Measuring the Transaction Sector in the American Economy, 1870-1970

Author(s): John J. Wallis & Douglass North (p. 95-162)

Chapter 4: The United States Capital Stock in the Nineteenth Century

Author(s): Robert E. Gallman (p. 165-214)

Chapter 5: Choices, Rents, and Luck: Economic Mobility of Nineteenth-Century Utah Households

Author(s): J. R. Kearl & Clayne L. Pope (p. 215-260)

Chapter 6: Inheritance on the Maturing Frontier: Butler County, Ohio, 1803-1865

Author(s): William Newell (p. 261-304)

Chapter 7: Rudimentary Contraceptive Methods and the American Transition to Marital Fertility Control, 1855-1915

Author(s): Paul David & Warren Sanderson (p. 307-390)

Chapter 8: New Results on the Decline in Household Fertility in the United States from 1750 to 1900

Author(s): Jenny Wahl (p. 391-438)

Chapter 9: Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings

Author(s): Robert W. Fogel (p. 439-556)

Chapter 10: The Female Labor Force and American Economic Growth,1890-1980

Author(s): Claudia Goldin (p. 557-604)

Chapter 11: Population and Labor in the British Caribbean in the Early Nineteenth Century

Author(s): B. W. Higman (p. 605-640)

Chapter 12: Revised Estimates of the United States Workforce, 1800-1860

Author(s): Thomas J. Weiss (p. 641-676)

Chapter 13: Productivity Growth in Manufacturing during Early Industrialization: Evidence from the American Northeast, 1820-1860

Author(s): Kenneth L. Sokoloff (p. 679-736)

Chapter 14: Output and Productivity in Canadian Agriculture, 1870-71 to 1926-27

Author(s): R. M. McInnis (p. 737-778)

Chapter 15: Growth and Productivity Change in the Canadian Railway Sector, 1871-1926

Author(s): Alan Green (p. 779-818)

Chapter 16: Long-Term Trends in State and Local Finance: Sources and Uses of Funds in North Carolina, 1800-1977

Author(s): Richard Sylla (p. 819-868)

Contributors

Author(s): (p. 869-872)

Author Index

Author(s): (p. 873-878)

Subject Index

Author(s): (p. 879-884)

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