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Large Scale Institutional Changes: Land Demarcation Within the British Empire
Libecap, Gary D.; Lueck, Dean; O'Grady, Trevor - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper examines the economics of large scale institutional change by studying the adoption of the land demarcation practices within the British Empire during the 17th through 19th Centuries. The advantages of systematic, coordinated demarcation, such as with the rectangular survey, relative...
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Integrated assessment modeling of climate change adaptation in forestry and pasture land use: A review
Rose, Steven K. - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 548-554
future impacts from climate change. Climate risks to forestry, pasture, and livestock are potential risks that need to be …Climate change is likely to affect commercial forest and pasture land use and production activities. As such … paper reviews and characterizes climate change adaptation modeling of forestry and pasture land use by IAMs, as well as …
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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
Bogart, Daniel; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to exploit economic opportunities that could not be accommodated by the inflexible rights regime inherited from the past. In...
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The pre-industrial energy crisis and resource scarcity as a source of transition
Steinmueller, W. Edward - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 10, pp. 1739-1748
The historical British ‘timber famine’ of the 18th century is re-examined in the light of contemporary concerns about transitions in energy use. The alternatives of scarcity-induced and opportunity-led transition are considered in relation to the economics of sustainable fuel timber...
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How the West "Invented" Fertility Restriction
Nico Voigtl?nder; Voth, Hans-Joachim - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 6, pp. 2227-64
livestock. Women have a comparative advantage in animal husbandry. After the Black Death in 1348?1350, land abundance triggered …
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Choices and Constraints in the Pre-Industrial Countryside
Ogilvie, Sheilagh - Department of Economic and Social History, University … - 2012
This paper explores a key implication of Richard Smith's work on agrarian societies: the need to be attentive both to rural people's decisions as economic agents and to the constraints on their choices. It begins by examining evidence of goal-maximizing behaviour by rural people – not...
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Property rights, land liquidity, and internal migration
Chernina, Eugenia; Castañeda Dower, Paul; Markevich, Andrei - In: Journal of Development Economics 110 (2014) C, pp. 191-215
In the early twentieth century, a large number of households resettled from the European to the Asian part of the Russian Empire. We propose that this dramatic migration was rooted in institutional changes initiated by the 1906 Stolypin land titling reform. One might expect better property...
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The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: the English Corn Returns as a data source in economic history, 1770-1914
Brunt, Liam; Cannon, Edmund - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
From 1770 to 1914, the British Government collected weekly price and quantity data for all types of grain traded in many market towns; these ‘Corn Returns’ were published in the London Gazette. We computerised the data published 1770-1864, totalling around 6 million data points. Here we...
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Coal and the European Industrial Revolution
Fernihough, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We examine the importance of geographical proximity to coal as a factor underpinning comparative European economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Our analysis exploits geographical variation in city and coalfield locations, alongside temporal variation in the availability of...
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Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
Voth, Hans-Joachim; Voigtlaender, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half of the population, its cause was unknown. Many...
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