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Corruption and reform : lessons from America's economic history

Glaeser, Edward L. (ed.); Goldin, Claudia (contributor) - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480814

The defining moment : the Great Depression and the American economy in the twentieth century

Bordo, Michael D. (ed.); Goldin, Claudia (ed.); … - 1998

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The Relative Productivity Hypothesis of Industrialization : The American Case, 1820-1850

Goldin, Claudia; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1981

. Industrialization in the Northeast was substantially powered during these decades by female and child labor, who comprised about 45% of … hypothesis of early industrialization is that such development proceeds first in areas whose agriculture, for various reasons … develop seven propositions relating to the process of early industrialization. Data from two early censuses of manufactures …

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The Incubator of Human Capital : The NBER and the Rise of the Human Capital Paradigm

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020

The human capital construct is deep in the bones of economics and finds reference by many classical economists, even if they did not use the phrase. The term "human capital," seldom mentioned in economics before the 1950s, increased starting in the 1960s and blossomed in the 1990s. The upsurge...

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The Earnings Gap Between Male and Female Workers : An Historical Perspective

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1986

Has economic progress increased the relative earnings of females to males over the long run? Evidence on trends in the earnings gap for the last four decades appears to run counter to this hypothesis. Numerous data sources are used in this paper to piece together a 170-year history of the...

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Putting the Co in Education : Timing, Reasons, and Consequences of College Coeducation from 1835 to the Present

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2010

The history of coeducation in U.S. higher education is explored through an analysis of a database containing information on all institutions offering four-year undergraduate degrees that operated in 1897, 1924, 1934, or 1980, most of which still exist today. These data reveal surprises about the...

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Cliometrics and the Nobel

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1994

In October 1993, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to Robert William Fogel and Douglass Cecil North `for having renewed research in economic history.' The Academy noted that `they were pioneers in the branch of economic history that has been called the...

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Strategic factors in nineteenth century American economic history : a volume to honor Robert W. Fogel ; [papers presented at a conference held Mar. 2-3, 1991 in Cambridge, Mass.]

Goldin, Claudia (ed.); Fogel, Robert William (honouree); … - 1992

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