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Steam Power, Establishment Size, and Labor Productivity Growth in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing
Atack, Jeremy - 2006
We use establishment level data from the 1850-80 censuses of manufacturing to study the correlates of the use of steam power and the impact of steam power on labor productivity growth in nineteenth century American manufacturing. A key result is that establishment size mattered: large...
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Industrialization and Urbanization : Did the Steam Engine Contribute to the Growth of Cities in the United States?
Kim, Sukkoo - 2005
Industrialization and urbanization are seen as interdependent processes of modern economic development. However, the exact nature of their causal relationship is still open to considerable debate. This paper uses firm-level data from the manuscripts of the decennial censuses between 1850 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467479
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A General Purpose Technology at Work : The Corliss Steam Engine in the late 19th Century US
Rosenberg, Nathan - 2001
The steam engine is widely regarded as the icon of the Industrial Revolution and a prime example of a 'General Purpose Technology,' and yet its contribution to growth is far from transparent. This paper examines the role that a particular innovative design in steam power, the Corliss engine,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470233
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Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialization
Franck, Raphaël - 2017
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455484
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Gaining Steam : Incumbent Lock-in and Entrant Leapfrogging
Hornbeck, Richard; Hsu, Shanon; Humlum, Anders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the long transition from water to steam power in US manufacturing, focusing on early users of mechanical power: lumber and flour mills. Digitizing Census of Manufactures manuscripts for 1850 to 1880, we show that as steam costs declined, manufacturing activity grew faster in counties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528423
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Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990
Collins, William J. - 1999
The historical evolution of racial differences in income in the 20th century United States has been examined intensively by economists, but the evolution of racial differences in wealth has been examined far less. This paper uses IPUMS data to study trends in racial differences in home ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471506
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Why are Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Larger for Men than for Women? Exploring the Role of Segregation
Bayard, Kimberly - 1999
the patterns of racial and ethnic segregation within occupation, industry, establishments, and occupation …-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of … establishment and job cell. Our results indicate that greater segregation between Hispanic men and white men than between Hispanic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471803
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Racial Discrimination and Housing Outcomes in the United States Rental Market
Christensen, Peter; Sarmiento-Barbieri, Ignacio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
(particularly African Americans) are also associated with higher levels of residential segregation and larger gaps in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696425
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Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults
Cook, Cody; Currier, Lindsey; Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the 'experienced isolation' methodology of Athey et al. (2021), we compare the isolation of students over the age of 16--who we identify based on their time spent at a high school--and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814420
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Segregation and the Initial Provision of Water in the United States
Beach, Brian; Parman, John; Saavedra, Martin H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
slower to eliminate typhoid fever. We develop a theoretical model that illustrates how segregation, by facilitating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814453