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A policy of deputization asks agents to monitor others without providing explicit incentives. It is often used to prevent dangerous activities. To calibrate whether and why it works, we study recent laws that deputized financial professionals to help fight elder financial abuse. We show...
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An unresolved question concerning post-Civil War U.S. industrialization is the degree to which import tariffs protected …
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investment during early industrialization. Although several manufacturing industries, such as cotton textiles, depart from the … per unit of labor is also presented, serving to undercut the notion that the early period of industrialization was based …
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. Industrialization in the Northeast was substantially powered during these decades by female and child labor, who comprised about 45% of … hypothesis of early industrialization is that such development proceeds first in areas whose agriculture, for various reasons … develop seven propositions relating to the process of early industrialization. Data from two early censuses of manufactures …
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Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...
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The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data are unavailable and because the focus has been on calculating period effects. In contrast to the prevailing strategies, we estimate the trend and rate of change of BMI values by birth...
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Industrial revolution is fundamentally linked with the rise of factories and the decline of skilled artisans in manufacturing. Most scholars agree that factories as compared to artisan shops were intensive in unskilled labor. Indeed, the hallmark of the early factories is the utilization of...
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were adopted by an ever growing number of industries, industrialization became concentrated in cities throughout the …
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Industrialization and urbanization are seen as interdependent processes of modern economic development. However, the … power source by manufacturers during industrialization contributed to urbanization. While the data indicate that steam …
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Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...
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