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Consumer Behavior and Immigrant Assimilation : A comparison of the United States, Britain and Germany, 1889/1890

Haines, Michael R. - 1989

This paper utilizes household-level budget data from the 1889/90 United States Commissioner of Labor survey to estimate the full Almost Ideal Demand System with demographic and other covariates. Price data were obtained from the Aldrich Report of 1892. The purpose is to make better use of the...

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Peopling the Pampa : On the Impact of Mass Migration to the River Plate, 1870-1914

Taylor, Alan M. - 2000

The Argentine economy was transformed in the late nineteenth century by the mass migration of millions of Europeans. Various ideas have surfaced concerning the likely impact of this labor inflow: that it favored the wheat revolution on the pampas; that it promoted urbanization and the rapid...

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

Ferrie, Joseph P. - 1996

Immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before the Civil War were less likely to reside in locations with high immigrant concentrations as their time in the U.S. increased. This is contrary to the experience of recent immigrants who show no decrease in concentration after arrival. The reduced...

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Health, Height and Welfare : Britain 1700-1980

Floud, Roderick - 1996

This paper reviews the evidence regarding the main trends in the height of the British population since the early eighteenth century. We argue that the average heights of successive birth cohorts of British males increased slowly between the middle of the eighteenth century and the first quarter...

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

Costa, Dora L. - 1995

We present evidence showing that the course of economic growth and of health, as measured by stature, Body Mass Index (BMI), mortality rates, or the prevalence of chronic conditions, diverged in the nineteenth century and converged in the twentieth. To analyze the change in welfare resulting...

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Factor Endowments : Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies

Engerman, Stanley L. - 1994

Many scholars are concerned with why the U.S. and Canada have been so much more successful over time than other New World economies. Since all New World societies enjoyed high levels of product per capita early in their histories, the divergence in paths can be traced back to the achievement of...

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Three Phases of Argentine Economic Growth

Taylor, Alan M. - 1994

Much of Argentina's decline in relative economic performance can be attributed to deleterious conditions for capital accumulation after 1913. In the first phase (pre-1913), the success of the Belle ?poque was due to spectacular rates of accumulation. In the second phase (1913-1930s), low...

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

Calomiris, Charles W. - 1996

The history of the financing of the American corporation can be described along many dimensions. One dimension of that history that underlies various measures of historical change in corporate finance is the range of feasible relationships between corporations and intermediaries. Intermediaries...

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

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2001

Recent banking theory holds that durable firm-bank relationships are valuable to both parties. Using contract …-specific loan records of a nineteenth-century U.S. bank, this paper shows that firms that form extended relationships with banks … receive three principal benefits. First, firms with extended relationships face lower credit costs. As the bank …

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

Bordo, Michael D. - 1996

incomplete regional diversification, and hence subject to a significant risk of an occasional failure by a large bank, to one …

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