that this dominance is inconsistent with use of a productivity-based allocation of quota licenses by the Chinese government …. Our counterfactual implies that elimination of misallocated quotas raised the overall productivity gain of quota removal …

Between 1800 and 1860, the United States became the preeminent world supplier of cotton as output increased sixty …-fold. Technological changes, including the introduction of improved cotton varieties, contributed significantly to this growth. Measured … output per worker in the cotton sector rose four-fold and large regional differences emerged. By 1840, output per worker in …

dynamic approach. Drawing on the records of 142 plantations with 509 crops years, we show that the average daily cotton … picking rate increased about four-fold between 1801 and 1862. We argue that the development and diffusion of new cotton … South's preeminence in the world cotton market, the pace of westward expansion, and the importance of indigenous …

We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers …. Using detailed operational, financial, and ownership data from the Japanese cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last … century, we find a more nuanced picture than the straightforward "higher productivity buys lower productivity" story commonly …

efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after controlling for rug specifications. Second, when …

(1974 to 1995) and subsequent Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (1995 to 2005). We find that China was relatively more …This paper analyzes China's experience under U.S. apparel and textile quotas. It makes use of a unique new database … constrained under these regimes than other countries and that, as quotas were lifted, China's exports grew disproportionately …

(horizontal differentiation). The market context is Japan's cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last century. We find that …

During the first half of of the nineteenth century the United States emerged as a major producer of cotton textiles … cotton textiles in the tariff bill of 1816, and during the 1820s manufacturers won increasingly strong protection …

substitutes for one another. The Walker tariff of 1846, for example, reduced the duties on cotton textiles from nearly 70 percent …Recent research has suggested that the antebellum U.S. cotton textile industry would have been wiped out had it not … received tariff protection. We reaffirm Taussig's judgment that the U.S. cotton textile industry was largely independent of the …

data from China and an equilibrium quantitative framework that features the sorting of workers across locations and … substantial negative effects on agricultural productivity and structural change, raising the share of households operating farms … by almost 30 percentage points and depressing agricultural productivity by more than 10 percent. Quantitatively, land …