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Tariff Incidence : Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2014
duties is scarce. This paper examines the incidence of U.S. sugar duties using a unique set of high-frequency (weekly, and … sometimes daily) data on the landed and the duty-inclusive price of raw sugar in New York City from 1890 to 1930, a time when … the United States consumed more than 20 percent of world sugar production and was therefore plausibly a "large" country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458030
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421183
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337813
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Fighting Communism Supporting Collusion
Galiani, Sebastián; Paz y Miño, José Manuel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
light on why the United States supported (or failed to support) international commodity agreements for coffee, sugar, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334385
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544806
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576669
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544686
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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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Applying AI to Rebuild Middle Class Jobs
Autor, David H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
While the utopian vision of the current Information Age was that computerization would flatten economic hierarchies by democratizing information, the opposite has occurred. Information, it turns out, is merely an input into a more consequential economic function, decision-making, which is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486232
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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