'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 …

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 …

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

(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 …

productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic …. -- technical change ; TFP growth ; provinces ; China ; ICT ; FDI ; infrastructure …

our key results to alternative data sets. -- China ; investment ; growth ; productivity ; capital market distortions …China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China …