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Land Policy : Founding Choices and Outcomes, 1781-1802
Grubb, Farley - 2009
Victory in the War for Independence brought a vast amount of land within the grasp of the new American nation -- territory stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River between the southern shores of the Great Lakes and Spanish Florida. These lands were initially claimed by...
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Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts : The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915
Alston, Lee - 2008
While most contemporary historians agree that the use of debt peonage as a coercive labor contract in Mexico was not widespread, scholars still concur that it was important and pervasive in Yucatan state during the henequen boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The henequen boom...
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Spatial Structural Change
Eckert, Fabian; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Between 1880 and 1920, the US agricultural employment share fell from 50% to 25%. However, despite aggregate demand shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural labor markets saw faster wage growth and industrialization than non-agricultural parts of the US. We propose a spatial...
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Land Security and Mobility Frictions
Adamopoulos, Tasso; Brandt, Loren; Chen, Chaoran; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
data from China and an equilibrium quantitative framework that features the sorting of workers across locations and … covering rural land in China during the period …
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Business Cycle during Structural Change : Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective
Storesletten, Kjetil - 2019
fluctuations of China …
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The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires : Human Capital in China
Zivin, Joshua S. Graff - 2019
detected by high-resolution satellites in China during 2005 to 2011, this paper investigates the impacts of fires on cognitive …
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Melitz Meets Lewis : The Impacts of Roads on Structural Transformation and Businesses
Kaboski, Joseph Paul; Lu, Jianyu; Qian, Wei; Ren, Lixia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
labor from local agricultural production leading to more firms. Using major highway programs in India and China, we find …
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The Economic Consequences of the Opium War
Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies the economic consequences of the West's foray into China after the Opium War (1839-42), when Western … nature of China's capital markets. Whereas before the Opium War, coastal cities were of relatively minor importance, the … treaty port system of the West transformed China into an economy focused on coastal areas and on international trade that …
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Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process : Evidence from China
Kuhn, Peter - 2018
We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. Overall, we find that 19 out of 20 callbacks to jobs requesting a particular gender are of the requested gender. Mostly, this is because application pools to...
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Vertical Integration, Institutional Determinants and Impact : Evidence from China
Fan, Joseph P.H. - 2009
political rent seeking is substantial, firm value might rise as economy performance decays. China offers a suitable background …
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