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Human Capital and Social Capital : The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021
the center of this belt' was the state of Iowa and we use information from the unique 1915 Iowa State Census to explore … the factors, at both the county and individual levels, that propelled states like Iowa to embrace secondary school … education very early. Iowa's small towns, as well as those across the nation, were the loci of the high school movement. In an …
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Does the Samaritan's Dilemma Matter? Evidence from U.S. Agriculture
Deryugina, Tatyana - 2016
The Samaritan's dilemma posits a downside to charity: recipients may rely on free aid instead of their own efforts. Anecdotally, the expectation of free assistance is thought to be important for decisions about insurance and risky behavior in numerous settings, but reliable empirical evidence is...
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Nutritional Status and Agricultural Surpluses in the Antebellum United States
Craig, Lee A.; Weiss, Thomas - 2021
We model the relationship between local agricultural surpluses, nutritional status, and height, and we test the hypothesis that adult height is positively correlated with the local production of nutrition in infancy. We test the hypothesis on two samples of Union Army recruits - one consisting...
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Property Rights to Land and Agricultural Organization : An Argentina-United States Comparison
Edwards, Eric; Fiszbein, Martin; Libecap, Gary - 2022
The contributions of Harold Demsetz offer key insights on how property rights and transaction costs shape economic organization. This guides our comparison of agricultural organization in two comparable regions, the Argentine Pampas and the US Midwest. In the US, land was distributed in small...
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Internal Net Worth and the Investment Process : an Application to U.S. Agriculture
Hubbard, R. Glenn; Kashyap, Anil K. - 2021
Recent models of firm investment decisions stressing informational imperfections in capital markets provide a foundation for interpreting evidence that movements in internal finance can predict investment opportunities. While such evidence is suggestive, it is often open to other...
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Academic Engagement, Commercialization, and Scholarship : Empirical Evidence from Agricultural and Life Scientists at U.S. Land-Grant Universities
Barham, Bradford; Foltz, Jeremy D.; Melo, Ana Paula - 2021
This article examines the involvement of agricultural and life science faculty at U.S. land grant universities in two types of university-industry relations: academic engagement (sponsored research, industry collaborations, and presentations), academic commercialization (patenting, licensing,...
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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
Andersen, Matt A.; Pardey, Philip G. - 2022
U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today’s agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms are much larger and more specialized, supplying a...
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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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Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer
Hornbeck, Richard - 2012
Agricultural development may support broader economic development, though agricultural expansion may also crowd-out local non-agricultural activity. On the United States Plains, areas over the Ogallala aquifer experienced windfall agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers'...
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When the Levee Breaks : Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South
Hornbeck, Richard - 2012
In the American South, post-bellum economic stagnation has been partially attributed to white landowners' access to low-wage black labor; indeed, Southern economic convergence from 1940 to 1970 was associated with substantial black out-migration. This paper examines the impact of the Great...
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