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Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages : Removing the Sugar Coating
Dippel, Christian - 2015
to working outside the formal sector. Using unique data for 14 British West Indies ‘sugar islands' from the year of slave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027691
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Tariff Incidence : Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2014
duties is scarce. This paper examines the incidence of U.S. sugar duties using a unique set of high-frequency (weekly, and … sometimes daily) data on the landed and the duty-inclusive price of raw sugar in New York City from 1890 to 1930, a time when … the United States consumed more than 20 percent of world sugar production and was therefore plausibly a "large" country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044624
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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica C1774
Burnard, Trevor - 2017
This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of Jamaican standards of living and income inequality around 1774. To this purpose we compute welfare ratios for a range of occupations and build a social table. We find that the slave colony had extremely high living costs, which rose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946034
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A Study of Exclusionary Coalitions : The Canadian Sugar Coalition, 1888–1889
Asker, John - 2019
customers—that share the benefits of exclusion. As a particular historical example, we study the Canadian sugar industry of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870053
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Early 20th Century American Exceptionalism : Production, Trade and Diffusion of the Automobile
Cheng, Dong; Crucini, Mario J.; Oh, Hyunseung; … - 2022
The beginning of the twentieth century provides a unique opportunity to explore the interaction of rapid technological progress and trade barriers in shaping the worldwide diffusion of a new, highly traded good: the automobile. We scrape historical data on the quantity and value of passenger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321598
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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium
Markusen, James R. - 2010
Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760467
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Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010
more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759650
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The Missing "Missing Middle"
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2014
and informal sector manufacturing firms in India, Indonesia, and Mexico, we document three facts. First, while there are a … from expanding. Third, we examine regulatory and tax notches in India, Indonesia, and Mexico of the sort often thought to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057395
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How Does Health Promotion Work? Evidence from the Dirty Business of Eliminating Open Defecation
Gertler, Paul J. - 2015
-scale randomized field experiments in four countries: India, Indonesia, Mali, and Tanzania. Health promotion works through a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026802
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Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap and Metabolic Disease
Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan; Oommen, Anu; Singh, Swapnil - 2021
biological mechanism, which are validated with micro-data from India, Indonesia and Ghana can jointly explain inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216212