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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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The Challenges of Economic Maturity : New England, 1880 - 1940

Rosenbloom, Joshua L. - 1999

This paper provides an account of the complex changes taking place within New England in the years from 1880 to 1940. After 1880, technological changes and market shifts undermined the sources of comparative advantage that had promoted the concentration of textile and footwear production within...

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South Carolina Slave Prices, 1722-1809

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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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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