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 …

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

that the shock to cotton textiles was transmitted to other local firms, leading to increased bankruptcies and long …-specific shock to the British cotton textile industry caused by the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), which dramatically reduced supplies … of raw cotton. Because the British cotton textile industry was heavily concentrated in towns in Northwest England, I …

international competition, each industry has evolved in its own way. In textiles, there has been tremendous capitalization. In … apparel, the organization of production has changed. In both cases, industry productivity has increased markedly, and this is …

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 …

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 …

adopted - take time to be reflected in aggregate productivity statistics. Before mechanization, cotton spinning was performed … plant productivity distribution of new technology adopters in mechanized cotton spinning. We find that this distribution was … technological change: The diffusion of mechanized cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution in France. We document new …

estimates. To assess the importance of these assumptions, we examine two natural experiments: the recession in cotton textile … adjusting for migration, we find that mortality increased during the cotton recession, but was largely unaffected by the coal …

efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after controlling for rug specifications. Second, when …