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Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2002

The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … concludes with four lessons of history and an agenda for international economists, including more attention to the impact of … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …

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Globalization in historical perspective

Bordo, Michael D. (ed.); Taylor, Alan M. (contributor); … - 2003

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Global Demographic Change : Dimensions and Economic Significance

Bloom, David E. - 2004

Transitions from high mortality and fertility to low mortality and fertility can be beneficial to economies as large baby boom cohorts enter the workforce and save for retirement, while rising longevity has perhaps increased both the incentive to invest in education and to save for retirement....

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Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States 1820-1847

Zimran, Ariell - 2018

I study the impact of transportation on health in the rural US, 1820-1847. Measuring health by average stature, I find that greater transportation linkage, as measured by market access, in a cohort's county-year of birth had an adverse impact on its health. A one-standard deviation increase in...

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Reversal of Fortune : Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

Acemoglu, Daron - 2001

Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for economic prosperity. This reversal is...

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The Future of EMU : What Does the History of Monetary Unions Tell Us?

Bordo, Michael D. - 1999

monetary unions intact. Our main lesson from the history of monetary unions is that political factors will be the central …

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"Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration"

Taylor, Alan M. - 1994

Between 1870 and 1913, economic convergence among present OECD members (or even a wider sample of countries) was dramatic, about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a half. The convergence can be documented in GDP per worker-hour, GDP per capita and in real wages. What were the...

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Trade and Immigration, 1870-2010

Jacks, David S. - 2018

the reasons why these two forces moved largely in parallel in the decades leading up to World War I, collapsed during the …

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The Gold Pool (1961-1968) and the Fall of the Bretton Woods System. Lessons for Central Bank Cooperation

Bordo, Michael - 2017

The Gold Pool (1961-1968) was one of the most ambitious cases of central bank cooperation in history. Major central …

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Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity : The Migration Connection

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006

Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the...

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