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Human Capital and Social Capital : The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1998
the center of this belt' was the state of Iowa and we use information from the unique 1915 Iowa State Census to explore … the factors, at both the county and individual levels, that propelled states like Iowa to embrace secondary school … education very early. Iowa's small towns, as well as those across the nation, were the loci of the high school movement. In an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472366
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Education and Income in the Early 20th Century : Evidence from the Prairies
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999
, employed in a variety of sectors and occupations, from the Iowa State Census of 1915. We find that the returns to a year of … root in America around 1910, even in agricultural areas such as Iowa. Census data for 1940, 1950, and 1960 are used to show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471572
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An analysis of postwar US consumption and saving
Boskin, Michael J.; Lau, Lawrence J.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000749312
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The economics of place-making policies
Glaeser, Edward L. (contributor);  … - 2008
Should the national government undertake policies aimed at strengthening the economies of particular localities or regions? Agglomeration economies and human capital spillovers suggest that such policies could enhance welfare. However, the mere existence of agglomeration externalities does not...
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Changes in the balance sheet of the U.S. manufacturing sector, 1926-1977
Ciccolo, John H.; Baum, Christopher F. - 1983
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Supply responses to digital distribution : recorded music and live performances
Mortimer, Julie Holland; Nosko, Chris; Sorensen, Alan T. - 2010
"Changes in technologies for reproducing and redistributing digital goods (e.g., music, movies, software, books) have dramatically affected profitability of these goods, and raised concerns for future development of socially valuable digital products. However, broader illegitimate distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738354
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Decomposing the great trade collapse : products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2011
"We identify a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that we hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in international trade into product entry and exit, price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395038
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Affiliates of U.S. and Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000
Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470927
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On the Instability of Variance Decompositions of the Real Exchange Rate across Exchange-Rate-Regimes : Evidence from Mexico and the United States
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2000
Variance decompositions of the Mexico-United States real exchange rate are examined using monthly data on consumer prices and the nominal exchange rate for the period January, 1969 to February, 2000. The results show that the robust result found in industrial-country data that most of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470982