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Land Policy : Founding Choices and Outcomes, 1781-1802
Grubb, Farley - 2010
Victory in the War for Independence brought a vast amount of land within the grasp of the new American nation -- territory stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River between the southern shores of the Great Lakes and Spanish Florida. These lands were initially claimed by...
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Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts : The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915
Alston, Lee J. - 2008
While most contemporary historians agree that the use of debt peonage as a coercive labor contract in Mexico was not widespread, scholars still concur that it was important and pervasive in Yucatan state during the henequen boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The henequen boom...
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The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires : Human Capital in China
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2019
detected by high-resolution satellites in China during 2005 to 2011, this paper investigates the impacts of fires on cognitive …
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Business Cycle During Structural Change : Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective
Storesletten, Kjetil - 2019
fluctuations of China.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may …
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The Economics of China : Successes and Challenges
Fan, Shenggen - 2013
This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …
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Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process : Evidence from China
Kuhn, Peter - 2018
We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. Overall, we find that 19 out of 20 callbacks to jobs requesting a particular gender are of the requested gender. Mostly, this is because application pools to...
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Economic Cycles in Ancient China
Zhang, Yaguang - 2015
We discuss business cycles in ancient China. Data on Ancient China business cycles are sparse and incomplete and so our … years for OECD countries and with major focus on the 1990's. Here we also probe material on Ancient China to see what is …
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Vertical Integration, Institutional Determinants and Impact : Evidence from China
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2013
political rent seeking is substantial, firm value might rise as economy performance decays. China offers a suitable background …
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East Asian Financial and Economic Development
Morck, Randall - 2017
over a single generation. China now seems poised to follow a similar trajectory. All three cases highlight the importance …
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Covered Farm Mortgage Bonds in the Late Nineteenth Century U.S
Snowden, Kenneth - 2010
Covered mortgage bonds have been used successfully in Europe for two centuries, but failed in the U.S. when introduced as farm mortgage debentures in the 1880s. Using firm-level data and a sample of loans made by one Kansas mortgage company, I find that debenture programs grew out of established...
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