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One Giant Leap : Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains
Hornbeck, Richard; Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We re-characterize American slavery as inefficient, whereby emancipation generated substantial aggregate economic gains …
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Roots of Inequality
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
-of-Africa Migration. The roots of income inequality within the US population provide supporting evidence for the hypothesis. It suggests …
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Marriage Matching over Five Centuries in China
Shiue, Carol H.; Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household with their preferred partner. We analyze marriage markets in a central region of China between about 1300 and 1850 through the lens of a model of marriage matching and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462674
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". . . and six hundred thousand men were dead."
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2003
proximately concerned the geographical expansion of slavery, but ultimately bore on the existence of the institution of slavery … itself. This paper asks why in 1861 after seventy years of artful compromises over slavery civil conflict became unavoidable … historical analysis the paper concludes that in the years leading up to 1861 the outcome of the dispute over slavery had become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468905
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Her Property Transactions : White Women and the Frequency of Female Ownership in the Antebellum Era
Wishart, Benton; Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The traditional historical narrative claims that White women were rarely involved in market transactions for enslaved people in the antebellum United States. Using transaction records, notary statements, and runaway advertisements, we provide the first quantitative estimates of the extent of...
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The Economic Effects of American Slavery : Tests at the Border
Bleakley, C. Hoyt; Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
To engage with the large literature on the economic effects of slavery, we use antebellum census data to test for … free labor to working in a slave society. This evidence of systemically lower economic performance in slavery-legal areas …
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Birth Order in the Very Long-Run : Estimating Firstborn Premiums between 1850 and 1940
Cools, Angela; Grooms, Jared; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family's role in human capital production...
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Overweight Grandsons and Grandfathers' Starvation Exposure
Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Much of the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity has been in developing countries with a history of famines and malnutrition. Prior research has pointed to the association between overweight and famine exposure during developmental ages as one of several explanations and has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435161
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Why Women Won
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How, when, and why did women in the US obtain legal rights equal to men's regarding the workplace, marriage, family, Social Security, criminal justice, credit markets, and other parts of the economy and society, decades after they gained the right to vote? The story begins with the civil rights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421187
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The Costs and Benefits of Clan Culture : Elite Control versus Cooperation in China
Chen, Shuo; Fisman, Raymond; Lan, Xiaohuan; Wang, Yongxiang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Kinship ties are a common institution that may facilitate in-group coordination and cooperation. Yet their benefits - or lack thereof - depend crucially on the broader institutional environment. We study how the prevalence of clan ties affect how communities confronted two well-studied...
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