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Wealth of Two Nations : The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020
Derenoncourt, Ellora; Kim, Chi Hyun; Kuhn, Moritz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, savings behavior, and capital returns in the evolution of the gap. Given vastly different starting conditions under slavery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334320
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The new history of capitalism and the methodologies of economic history
Geloso, Vincent; Glock, Judge - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 39 (2021), pp. 206-221
The rise of the "New History of Capitalism" as a subfield of historical studies has magnified differences between economists and historians which started to grow during the 1970s. We describe what is and what is not new about the New History of Capitalism and explain how the different...
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The Roots of 'Modern Day Slavery' : The Page Act and the Mann Act
Lee, Lorelei - 2023
Usage of the phrase “modern day slavery” to describe human trafficking, especially sex trafficking, is widespread … despite work by numerous scholars and activists to point out how such usage harms attempts to remedy both slavery and … be understood as the precursors to contemporary usage of “modern day slavery” as well as to contemporary usage of …
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Never Together : Black and White People in the Postwar Economic Era
Temin, Peter - 2020
This paper recounts American economic history for 60 years after World War II. The unusual part of this paper is that it focuses on not only the conventional tale, but also recounts what whites did to and for Blacks over this period. It starts from the unhappy experience of a Black American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094603
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Mass Incarceration Retards Racial Integration
Temin, Peter - 2021
President Nixon replaced President Johnson’s War on Poverty with his War on Drugs in 1971. This new drug war was expanded by President Reagan and others to create mass incarceration. The United States currently has a higher percentage of its citizens incarcerated than any other industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228899
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Reducing racial inequality in access to the ballot reduces racial inequality in children's later-life outcomes
Jones, Daniel B.; Shi, Ying - 2022
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 removed barriers to voting for Black Americans in the South; existing work documents that this in turn led to shifts in the distribution of public funding towards areas with a higher share of Black residents and also reduced Black-White earnings disparities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888365
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Reducing Racial Inequality in Access to the Ballot Reduces Racial Inequality in Children's Later-Life Outcomes
Jones, Daniel; Shi, Ying - 2022
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 removed barriers to voting for Black Americans in the South; existing work documents that this in turn led to shifts in the distribution of public funding towards areas with a higher share of Black residents and also reduced Black-White earnings disparities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083843
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Business Cycles and Financial Crises: The Roles of Credit Supply and Demand Shocks
Nason, James M.; Tallman, Ellis W. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
This paper explores the hypothesis that the sources of economic and financial crises differ from non-crisis business cycle fluctuations. We employ Markov-switching Bayesian vector autoregressions (MS-BVARs) to gather evidence about the hypothesis on a long annual U.S. sample running from 1890 to...
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General Purpose Technologies and Economic Growth: Electricity Diffusion in the Manufacturing Sector Before WWII
Ristuccia, C.A.; Solomou, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2010
This paper evaluates the diffusion of electricity within the context of a GPT perspective. The paper develops a new comparative data set on the usage of electricity in the manufacturing sectors of the US, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypotheses of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642853
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Can general purpose technology theory explain economic growth? Electrical Power as a case study
Ristuccia, Cristiano Andrea; Solomou, Solomos - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in economies? The paper develops a new comparative data set on the usage of electricity in the manufacturing sectors of the USA, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010760474