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The Earnings Gap Between Male and Female Workers : An Historical Perspective

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1986

Has economic progress increased the relative earnings of females to males over the long run? Evidence on trends in the earnings gap for the last four decades appears to run counter to this hypothesis. Numerous data sources are used in this paper to piece together a 170-year history of the...

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Putting the Co in Education : Timing, Reasons, and Consequences of College Coeducation from 1835 to the Present

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2010

The history of coeducation in U.S. higher education is explored through an analysis of a database containing information on all institutions offering four-year undergraduate degrees that operated in 1897, 1924, 1934, or 1980, most of which still exist today. These data reveal surprises about the...

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The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1994

The labor force participation rate of married women first declines and then rises as countries develop. Its þ-shape is revealed both across the process of economic development and through the histories of currently advanced countries. The initial decline in the participation rate is due to the...

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The Savings of Ordinary Americans : The Philidelphia Saving Fund Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Alter, George; Goldin, Claudia; Rotella, Elyce J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1992

We explore the savings behavior and saving rates of ordinary Americans through their accounts at the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society. the oldest mutual savings bank in the United States founded in 1816 to encourage thrift among the working poor. Our sample contains the 2.374 accounts opened in...

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Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets Before the Civil War

Goldin, Claudia; Margo, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1989

Two opposing views of the antebellum economy are tested. One is that aggregate economic activity was severely diminished and that unemployment was substantial and prolonged during several downturns. The alternative interpretation is that antebellum fluctuations were more apparent than real;...

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The corporate cost of capital in Japan and the U. S. : a comparison

Ando, Albert; Auerbach, Alan - 1985

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The Corporate Cost of Capital in Japan and the U.S : A Comparison

Ando, Albert - 1985

This paper presents evidence about the coats of corporate capital in Japan and the US, for a sample of large companies …, and evaluates a variety of hypotheses about why the cost might be lower in Japan.We find that the before-tax return to … capital in Japan appears slightly lower than in the U.S. when corrected book measures of earnings are used, but that this …

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Inefficiency of Corporate Investment and Distortion of Savings Behavior in Japan

Ando, Albert - 2003

The value of corporate equity in Japan is dramatically smaller than that implied by the sum of the reproduction cost of …

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On the Japanese Economy and Japanese National Accounts

Ando, Albert - 2000

A review of the Japanese National Accounts reveals that the Japanese household sector has apparently suffered a capital loss of some 400 trillion-yen in 1990 consumption prices since 1970. This loss is large enough to explain most of the Japanese recession of the 1990's. We can trace some...

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Cost of Capital for the United States, Japan, and Canada : An Attempt at Measurement Based on Individual Company Records and Aggregate National Acccoun

Ando, Albert - 1997

countries such as the US, Canada, and Japan. Attempts are made to carry out the measurement based both on the accounting records … equal to or somewhat lower than that in the US For Japan, the individual company accounts and National Accounts data yield …

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