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Mancall, Peter C. - 2000

Based on data from several samples of probate inventories we construct and analyze a time series of slave prices for South Carolina from 1722 to 1809. These estimates reveal that prices fluctuated without trend prior to the 1760s and then began to rise rapidly, more than doubling by the early...

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

Haber, Stephen - 1996

of economic growth. It examines this hypothesis by estimating the productivity gain afforded to Brazilian textile firms … regressions on 18 firm-level censuses covering the period 1866-1934, which permit me to decompose total factor productivity growth … accelerated rates of growth of productivity …

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

Atack, Jeremy - 1995

This paper makes use of hitherto untabulated data from the censuses of manufacturing for 1870 and 1880 to investigate the extent to which firms operated at less than their full capacity year round in these census years and thus provides some evidence of the extent to which workers may have faced...

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

Weiss, Thomas - 1991

the process, the exact pace and timing of agricultural productivity change is still unresolved. The traditional view is … one of continued progress in which output and productivity increased steadily, accelerating over the period. The Civil War … that the period before the Civil War had the superior record and experienced particularly rapid productivity growth between …

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