"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 present a mechanism to analytically generate a double Pareto distribution of wealth in a continuous time OLG model …. We disentangle, roughly, the contribution of inheritance, age and stochastic rates of capital return to wealth inequality …, in particular to the Gini coefficient. We investigate the role of the fiscal and redistributive policies for wealth …