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Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States 1820-1847

Zimran, Ariell - 2018

I study the impact of transportation on health in the rural US, 1820-1847. Measuring health by average stature, I find that greater transportation linkage, as measured by market access, in a cohort's county-year of birth had an adverse impact on its health. A one-standard deviation increase in...

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Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018

This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the twentieth century. We use three new datasets: a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility

Card, David - 2018

We use 1940 Census data to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital for children born in the 1920s and educated during an era of expanding but unequally distributed public school resources. Looking at the gains in educational attainment between parents and children, we document...

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Trade and Immigration, 1870-2010

Jacks, David S. - 2018

In this chapter, we describe long-run trends in global merchandise trade and immigration from 1870 to 2010. We revisit the reasons why these two forces moved largely in parallel in the decades leading up to World War I, collapsed during the interwar period, and then rebounded (but with much more...

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Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality

Anderson, D. Mark - 2018

Using data on 25 major American cities for the period 1900-1940, we explore the effects of municipal-level public health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying interventions such as treating sewage and setting strict...

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The Making of the Modern Metropolis : Evidence from London

Heblich, Stephan - 2018

Modern metropolitan areas involve large concentrations of economic activity and the transport of millions of people each day between their residence and workplace. We use the revolution in transport technology from the invention of steam railways, newly-constructed spatially-disaggregated data...

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Measuring Technological Innovation over the Long Run

Kelly, Bryan - 2018

We use textual analysis of high-dimensional data from patent documents to create new indicators of technological innovation. We identify significant patents based on textual similarity of a given patent to previous and subsequent work: these patents are distinct from previous work but are...

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Rugged Individualism and Collective (In)action During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bazzi, Samuel - 2020

Rugged individualism--the combination of individualism and anti-statism--is a prominent feature of American culture … with deep roots in the country's history of frontier settlement. Today, rugged individualism is more prevalent in counties …'s frontier culture hampered the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across U.S. counties, greater TFE is associated with less …

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The Costs of Employment Segregation : Evidence from the Federal Government under Wilson

Aneja, Abhay - 2020

We link personnel records of the federal civil service to census data for 1907-1921 to study the segregation of the civil service by race under President Woodrow Wilson. Using a difference-in-differences design to compare the black-white wage gap around Wilson's presidential transition, we find...

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Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing : Economic History and the Long-Run Impacts of COVID-19

Arthi, Vellore - 2020

potential long-run impact on individuals over decades and even generations. History, however, offers a solution. Historical …

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