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India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule : New Ideas, New Evidence
Clingingsmith, David - 2004
India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of … organize our thinking about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India's de-industrialization. The …
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Managing the Family Firm : Evidence from CEOs at Work
Bandiera, Oriana - 2013
We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs, and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs' diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion, and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The...
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Identifying Agglomeration Shadows : Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports
Hornbeck, Richard; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and "wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the locations of...
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Business cycles : theory, history, indicators, and forecasting
Zarnowitz, Victor - 1992
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Economics of the family : marriage, children, and human capital ; a conference report of the National Bureau of Economic Research
Schultz, Theodore William (contributor);  … - 1974
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Developments in the economics of aging
Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2009
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Publications / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
National Bureau of Economic Research - Washington, DC : United States Gov. Pr. Off. - 1.1921 - 57.1954
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Behavioral and distributional effects of environmental policy
Carraro, Carlo (contributor);  … - 2001
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The economics of art museums
Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1991
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Tariffs and Growth in Late Nineteenth Century America
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2000
Were high import tariffs somehow related to the strong U.S. economic growth during the late nineteenth century? This paper examines this frequently mentioned but controversial question and investigates the channels by which tariffs could have promoted growth during this period. The paper shows...
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