potential long-run impact on individuals over decades and even generations. History, however, offers a solution. Historical … long-run effects on health, labor, and human capital of both historical pandemics (with a focus on the 1918 Influenza …

We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian … manufacturing. We focus on disparities among states in manufacturing employment patterns, and provide reduced form evidence of their …

supply of labor encourages technological progress. In contrast, the famous Habakkuk hypothesis in economic history claims …This paper studies the conditions under which the scarcity of a factor (in particular, labor) encourages technological … that technological progress was more rapid in 19th-century United States than in Britain because of labor scarcity in the …

Agriculture dominated the economy of eighteenth-century British America, and the pace of agricultural productivity … based on the value of slave labor and on measurements of total agricultural production in the region. Despite differences in …

(misallocation) and (2) the allocation of workers across sectors, in particular the type of farmers who operate in agriculture …We use household-level panel data from China and a quantitative framework to document the ex- tent and consequences of … factor misallocation in agriculture. We find that there are substantial frictions in both the land and capital markets linked …

In a famous paper, Kenneth Sokoloff argued that the labor input of entrepreneurs was generally not included in the … thumb" imputation for the entrepreneurial labor input. Using establishment level manufacturing data from the 1850 …-80 censuses and textual evidence I argue that, contrary to Sokoloff's claim, the census did generally include the labor of …