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 …

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

The United States produced about 80 percent of the world's cotton in the decades prior to the Civil War. How much … monopoly power did the United States possess in the world cotton market and what would have been the effect of an optimal … export tax? This paper estimates the elasticity of foreign demand for U.S. cotton exports and uses the elasticity in a simple …