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 …

Between 1800 and 1860, the United States became the preeminent world supplier of cotton as output increased sixty …-fold. Technological changes, including the introduction of improved cotton varieties, contributed significantly to this growth. Measured … output per worker in the cotton sector rose four-fold and large regional differences emerged. By 1840, output per worker in …

dynamic approach. Drawing on the records of 142 plantations with 509 crops years, we show that the average daily cotton … picking rate increased about four-fold between 1801 and 1862. We argue that the development and diffusion of new cotton … South's preeminence in the world cotton market, the pace of westward expansion, and the importance of indigenous …

We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers …. Using detailed operational, financial, and ownership data from the Japanese cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last … century, we find a more nuanced picture than the straightforward "higher productivity buys lower productivity" story commonly …

and producer surplus by five to ten percent, but average productivity losses are significantly smaller because most inputs …

for textiles trade. The benefits from freer trade in textiles and clothing shed light on other sectors that are still …

(horizontal differentiation). The market context is Japan's cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last century. We find that …

During the first half of of the nineteenth century the United States emerged as a major producer of cotton textiles … cotton textiles in the tariff bill of 1816, and during the 1820s manufacturers won increasingly strong protection …

substitutes for one another. The Walker tariff of 1846, for example, reduced the duties on cotton textiles from nearly 70 percent …Recent research has suggested that the antebellum U.S. cotton textile industry would have been wiped out had it not … received tariff protection. We reaffirm Taussig's judgment that the U.S. cotton textile industry was largely independent of the …