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Innovation Networks in the Industrial Revolution

Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the … quantify the implications for technology growth rates in Britain compared to France. Our results indicate that the shape of the … change and industrial growth in Britain during the Industrial Revolution …

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Industry and Identity : The Migration Linkage Between Economic and Cultural Change in 19th Century Britain

Fouka, Vasiliki; Serlin, Theo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How does economic modernization affect group identity? Modernization theory emphasizes how labor migration led to the adoption of common identities. Yet economic development may reduce incentives to emigrate, preserving local cultures. We study England and Wales during the Second Industrial...

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American Life Histories

Lagakos, David; Michalopulos, Stelios; Voth, Hans-Joachim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

What does it take to live a meaningful life? We exploit a unique corpus of over 1,400 life narratives of older Americans collected by a team of writers during the 1930s. We combine detailed human readings with large language models (LLMs) to extract systematic information on critical junctures,...

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Business Failures by Branch of Business in the United States, 1895 to 1935 : A Statistical History

Richardson, Gary; Angel, Marco del; Gou, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Dun's Review began publishing monthly data on bankruptcies by branch of business during the 1890s. Those series evolved through many iterations. This essay reconstructs the series from 1895 to 1935 and discusses how it can be used for economic analysis

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Family Trees and Falling Apples : Historical Intergenerational Mobility Estimates for Women and Men

Buckles, Kasey S.; Price, Joseph; Ward, Zachary; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Efforts to document long-term trends in socioeconomic mobility in the United States have been hindered by the lack of large, representative datasets that include information linking parents to their adult children. This problem has been especially acute for women, who are more difficult to link...

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The Impact of World War II Army Service on Income and Mobility in the 1960s by Ethnoracial Group

Barrera, Sergio E.; Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We analyze the impact of World War II service on income and mobility among male Army and Army Airforce veterans from various racial and ethnic groups, using linked 1940 Census, WWII enlistment, and 1969 administrative tax return data. The dataset includes non-Hispanic White, Black, Hispanic,...

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Passing as White : Racial Identity and Old-Age Longevity

Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

In the presence of segregation and discrimination during the late 19th and early 20th century, many African American men changed their racial identity and "passed" for white. Previous studies have suggested that this activity was associated with increases in income and socioeconomic status...

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The Forward Guidance Puzzle is not a Puzzle

Eggertsson, Gauti B.; Schüle, Finn D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In standard New Keynesian models, future interest rate cuts have larger effects than current cuts--this is called the forward guidance puzzle. We argue that the forward guidance puzzle is not a puzzle. We show the puzzle arises from an implausibly large monetary regime change, exceeding anything...

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How Important Are Cultural Frictions for Internal Migration? Evidence from the Nineteenth Century United States

Jaworski, Taylor; Kimbrough, Erik O.; Saito, Nicole - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We propose a new measure of cultural distance based on differences in the composition of first names and church denominations between locations. We use a gravity equation to estimate the elasticity of migration flows with respect to the two components of cultural distance as well as a standard...

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Vanguard : Black Veterans and Civil Rights after World War I

Ang, Desmond; Chinoy, Sahil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Nearly 400,000 Black men were drafted into the National Army during World War I, where they toiled in segregated units and received little formal training. Leveraging novel variation from the WWI draft lottery and millions of digitized military and NAACP records, we document the pioneering role...

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