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A Patchwork Safety Net : A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Fishback, Price V. - 2010

Social welfare programs in the United States are designed to serve as safety nets for people in hard times, in contrast with the universal approach found in many other developed western nations. In a survey of Cliometric studies of social welfare programs in the U.S., we examine the variation in...

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Austerity and the Rise of the Nazi Party

Galofré-Vilà, Gregori - 2017

We study the link between fiscal austerity and Nazi electoral success. Voting data from a thousand districts and a hundred cities for four elections between 1930 and 1933 shows that areas more affected by austerity (spending cuts and tax increases) had relatively higher vote shares for the Nazi...

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Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing : Economic History and the Long-Run Impacts of Covid-19

Arthi, Vellore - 2020

How might COVID-19 affect human capital and wellbeing in the long run? The COVID-19 pandemic has already imposed a heavy human cost—taken together, this public health crisis and its attendant economic downturn appear poised to dwarf the scope, scale, and disruptiveness of most modern...

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Implications for Energy Innovation from the Chemical Industry

Arora, Ashish - 2014

The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played in its development. We then explore three noteworthy...

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A Note on Long-Run Persistence of Public Health Outcomes in Pandemics

Lin, Zhixian - 2020

Covid-19 is the single largest threat to global public health since the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-20. Was the world better prepared in 2020 than it was in 1918? After a century of public health and basic science research, pandemic response and mortality outcomes should be better than in...

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Surviving Andersonville : The Benefits of Social Networks in Pow Camps

Costa, Dora L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - 2021

Twenty-seven percent of the Union Army prisoners captured July 1863 or later died in captivity. At Andersonville the death rate may have been as high as 40 percent. How did men survive such horrific conditions? Using two independent data sets we find that friends had a statistically significant...

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The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women'S Employment, Education, and Family

Goldin, Claudia - 2021

The modern economic role of women emerged in four phases. The first three were evolutionary; the last was revolutionary. Phase I occurred from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s; Phase II was from 1930 to 1950; Phase III extended from 1950 to the late 1970s; and Phase IV, the "quiet...

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Combining Family History and Machine Learning to Link Historical Records

Price, Joseph - 2019

A key challenge for research on many questions in the social sciences is that it is difficult to link historical records in a way that allows investigators to observe people at different points in their life or across generations. In this paper, we develop a new approach that relies on millions...

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A Century of the American Woman Voter : Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship Since Women's Enfranchisement

Cascio, Elizabeth; Shenhav, Na'ama - 2021

This year marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, which provided American women a constitutional guarantee to the franchise. We assemble data from a variety of sources to document and explore trends in women’s political participation, issue preferences, and partisanship since that...

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EU Accession and Foreign Owned Firms in Bulgaria

Feliciano, Zadia - 2016

Bulgaria signed the Europe Association Agreement (EAA) in 1995 and the European Union accession treaty in 2005 …. Accession had the effect of increasing FDI in Bulgaria. We analyze World Bank BEEPS firm level data for 2007 to better … understand characteristics and performance of foreign firms in Bulgaria. We estimate linear probability and logit models to …

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