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 …

The boll weevil spread across the Southern United States from 1892 to 1922 having a devastating impact on cotton …

export tax? This paper estimates the elasticity of foreign demand for U.S. cotton exports and uses the elasticity in a simple … indicate that the export demand elasticity for U.S. cotton was about -1.7 and that the optimal export tax of about 50 percent …The United States produced about 80 percent of the world's cotton in the decades prior to the Civil War. How much …

of skills in the production network. A firm-specific export demand shock from a rich country increases the firm's skill …, endogenous quality choices, and network formation. An economy-wide export demand shock of 5 percent induces exporters and non …

conduct a randomized evaluation to analyze the impacts of index insurance for cotton farmers in Burkina Faso. We find no … impact of insurance on cotton, but, consistent with microeconomic theory, we find significant spillover impacts on investment …

the size of the cotton harvest due to economically exogenous factors such as weather. Wheat and corn harvests did not … affect industrial production; nor did the cotton harvest before the late 1870s. The unique effect of the cotton harvest in …

Between 1928 and 1960 U.S. cotton production witnessed a revolution with average yields roughly tripling while the …