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The Farm-Nonfarm Wage Gap in the Antebellum United States : Evidence fromthe 1850 and 1860 Censuses of Social Statistics

Margo, Robert A. - 1995

the gaps: counties with relatively low farm wages experienced above-average investment …

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Appendix to: "How America Graduated from High School, 1910 to 1960", Construction of State-Level Secondary School Data

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1994

A new state-level series on secondary-school data demonstrates that graduation and enrollment rates increased greatly in the 1920s and 1930s in most regions. An 18-year old male in 1910 had just a 10% chance of having a high school diploma but by the mid-1930s the median 18-year old male was a...

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How Long Did It Take the United States to Become an Optimal Currency Area?

Rockoff, Hugh - 2000

The United States is often taken to be the exemplar of the benefits of a monetary union. Since 1788 Americans, with the exception of the Civil War years, have been able to buy and sell goods, travel, and invest within a vast area without ever having to be concerned about changes in exchange...

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Wages in California During the Gold Rush

Margo, Robert A. - 1997

a frontier region. Using newly-collected archival data, this paper presents estimates of nominal and real wages in Gold … Rush California. Consistent with a simple dynamic model of labor market adjustment, real wages rose sharply during the … itself was a transitory event, it left California wages permanently higher. Estimates based on census data suggest that the …

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Land, Labor and the Wage-Rental Ratio : Factor Price Convergence in the Late Nineteenth Century

O'Rourke, Kevin - 1996

-saving biases associated with induced-innovational theory, an endogenous response to relative factor scarcities …

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Wages and Prices During the Antebellum Period : A Survey and New Evidence

Margo, Robert A. - 1990

The purpose of this paper is to survey recent research on wages and prices in the united States before the civil War … existing regional data on wholesale prices to construct new regional indices of real wages for artisans and unskilled labor …

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Risk Sharing, Crew Quality, Labor Shares and Wages in the Nineteenth Century American Whaling Industry

Davis, Lance E. - 1990

this unique contract. examines the occupational and spatial distribution of lays. and compares wages in whaling with those …

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Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living : Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States

Haines, Michael R. - 2000

This paper examines variations in stature and the Body Mass Index (BMI) across space for the United States in 1917/18, using published data on the measurement of approximately 890,000 recruits for the American Army for World War I. It also connects those anthropometric measurements with an index...

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A Brief History of Education in the United States

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

This essay is the companion piece to about 550 individual data series on education to be included in the updated Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition (Cambridge University Press 2000, forthcoming). The essay reviews the broad outlines of U.S. educational history from...

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The Poor and the Dead : Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the U.S., 1850-1860

Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2001

Despite the significant research on aggregate trends in mortality and physical stature in the middle of the nineteenth century, little evidence on the individual-level characteristics associated with premature mortality has been presented. This essay describes a new project that links...

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