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The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South : A Guide and Interpretation

Collins, William J. - 2020

The Great Migration from the US South is a prominent theme in economic history research not only because it was a prime example of large scale internal migration, but also because it had far-reaching ramifications for American economic, social, and political change. This essay offers a concise...

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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain

Bogart, Daniel - 2010

During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to exploit economic opportunities that could not be accommodated by the inflexible rights regime inherited from the past. In...

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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

Ashraf, Quamrul - 2013

Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...

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How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction

Voigtländer, Nico - 2011

Europeans restricted their fertility long before the Demographic Transition. By raising the marriage age of women and ensuring that a substantial proportion remained celibate, the "European Marriage Pattern" (EMP) reduced childbirths by up to one third between the 14th and 18th century. In a...

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Structural Transformation and Value Change : The British Abolitionist Movement

Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

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Production trends in the United States since 1870

Burns, Arthur F. - 1950 - Reprint

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The American economy in transition

Feldstein, Martin S. (contributor); Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1980

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The decline of Latin American economies : growth, institutions, and crises

Edwards, Sebastian (ed.) - 2007

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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine : Mainland China and Hong Kong

Almond, Douglas - 2007

This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including:...

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The Economic Consequences of the Opium War

Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper studies the economic consequences of the West's foray into China after the Opium War (1839-42), when Western … nature of China's capital markets. Whereas before the Opium War, coastal cities were of relatively minor importance, the … treaty port system of the West transformed China into an economy focused on coastal areas and on international trade that …

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