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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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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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Movies
Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...
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Sustained Debt Reduction : The Jamaica Exception
Arslanalp, Serkan; Eichengreen, Barry; Henry, Peter Blair - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Reducing high public debts is key for countries seeking to restore fiscal capacity and resilience in the wake of recent crises. But large debt reductions are rare. Jamaica stands out for reducing its debt from 144 percent of GDP to 72 percent over the last decade, a record achieved by running...
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Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing? And if so, why? And what is next?
Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Reed, Tristan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
uncertain at this point, but these new policies will likely slow global growth, innovation, and poverty reduction even if they …
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Historical Newspaper Data : A Researcher's Guide and Toolkit
Beach, Brian; Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Digitized historical newspaper databases offer a valuable research tool. A rapidly expanding set of studies use these databases to address a wide range of topics. We review this literature and provide a toolkit for researchers interested in working with historical newspaper data. We provide a...
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What Motivates Leaders to Invest in Nation-Building?
Giuliano, Paola; Reich, Bryony; Riboni, Alessandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Why do some leaders invest in significant nation-building policies and others do not? Why does nation-building occur at certain junctures in time and not others? In our research, we investigate what motivates leaders to nation build. We argue that threats to their regime motivate rulers to...
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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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Toxified to the Bone : Early-Life and Childhood Exposure to Lead and Men's Old-Age Mortality
Fletcher, Jason; Noghanibehambari, Hamid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Several strands of research document the life-cycle impacts of lead exposure during the critical period of children's development. Yet little is known about long-run effects of lead exposure during early-life on old-age mortality outcomes. This study exploits the staggered installation of water...
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Creating the "American Way" of Business : Evidence from WWII in the U.S
Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
management practices to US firms involved in war production acted as a technology that put them on a higher growth path for …
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