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fight and endure war, the government elites began to provide public goods, reduced rent extraction and adopted policies to …
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This paper explores the means by which warfare influences domestic commodity markets. It is argued that England during the French Wars provides an ideal testing ground. Four categories of explanatory variables are taken as likely sources of documented changes in English commodity price...
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mobilization for World War II to test the big push hypothesis in the context of postwar industrialization in the American South … of wartime investment. Despite a boom in manufacturing activity during the war, the evidence is not consistent with …
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a higher fraction of women working not only for the generation directly affected by the war, but also for the next …
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The most prominent feature of the female labor force across the past hundred years is its enormous growth. But many believe that the increase was discontinuous. Our purpose is to identify the short- and long-run impacts of WWII on the labor supply of women who were currently married in 1950 and...
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belligerents: Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. At the outbreak of the war, these nations suspended … convertibility of their currencies into gold with the promise that after the war each would restore convertibility at the old par …. However, once convertibility was suspended, the value of each currency depended on the outcome of the war. I decompose …
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During World War II Americans were called upon repeatedly to salvage raw materials for the war effort, often during …
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The process by which the US economy was mobilized during World War I was the subject of considerable criticism both at … of active US involvement was remarkable. The United States entered the war in 1917 having made only limited preparations … force in the 15 to 44 age bracket. Overall in 1918, one fifth or more of the nation's resources was devoted to the war …
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the Mexican war on drugs, we investigate how an individual's risk attitudes change with variation in levels of insecurity … and uncertainty brought on by unprecedented changes in local-area violent crime due to the war on drugs. Exploiting the …
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Civil War. The sample contains extensive demographic, economic, and medical data from childhood to death. In recent years, a …
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