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The Rise of the Regulatory State
Glaeser, Edward L.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021
During the Progressive Era at the beginning of the 20th century, the United States replaced litigation by regulation as the principal mechanism of social control of business. To explain why this happened, we present a model of choice of law enforcement strategy between litigation and regulation...
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"Tranquiliser"-Revaluation
Kebschull, Dietrich - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 4 (1969) 11, pp. 340
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The Trend of BMI Values of Us Adults by Centiles, Birth Cohorts 1882-1986
Komlos, John - 2010
Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...
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Corporate Governance and the Development of Manufacturing Enterprises in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
Hilt, Eric - 2014
This paper analyzes the use of the corporate form among nineteenth-century manufacturing firms in Massachusetts, from newly collected data from 1875. An analysis of incorporation rates across industries reveals that corporations were formed at higher rates among industries in which firm size was...
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Gallman Revisited : Blacksmithing and American Manufacturing, 1850-1870
Atack, Jeremy; Margo, Robert A. - 2021
key puzzles regarding industrialization in the nineteenth century. As “jacks-of-all-trades,” they were generally masters …
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Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography
Kim, Sukkoo; Margo, Robert A. - 2021
between urbanization and trends in aggregate economic structure, such as industrialization; and changes in the internal …
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The Trend of Mean BMI Values of Us Adults, Birth Cohorts 1882-1986 Indicates that the Obesity Epidemic Began Earlier than Hitherto Thought
Komlos, John - 2010
The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data are unavailable and because the focus has been on calculating period effects. In contrast to the prevailing strategies, we estimate the trend and rate of change of BMI values by birth...
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Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective
Steckel, Richard H. - 2021
industrialization in 8 developed countries. Because earlier efforts have been stymied by lack of reliable measures of mortality, the … most recent work utilizes average height obtained from military records. Average heights measure a population's history of … net nutrition during the growing years. Based on this measure, health improved uniformly during industrialization in …
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Invisible Women : Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Firms in France During Early Industrialization
Khan, B. Zorina - 2015
industrialization. The empirical evidence indicates that middle-class women in France were extensively engaged in entrepreneurship and …
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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction
Steier, Lloyd - 2013
This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
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