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Free labor and slave labor
Engerman, Stanley L.; Margo, Robert A. - In: Founding choices : American economic policy in the …, (pp. 291-314). 2011
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Chapter 3 Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States
Collins, William J.; Margo, Robert A. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 107-154). 2006
In this chapter we present an overview of the history of racial differences in schooling in the United States. We present basic data on literacy, school attendance, educational attainment, various measures of school quality, and the returns to schooling. Then, in the context of a simple model of...
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Wages, prices, and labor markets before the civil war
Goldin, Claudia; Margo, Robert A. - 1989
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The labor force in the nineteenth century
Margo, Robert A. - 1992
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The antebellum "surge" in skill differentials on more time : new evidence
Margo, Robert A.; Villaflor, Georgia C. - 1985
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Railroads and local economic development : the United States in the 1850s
Haines, Michael R.; Margo, Robert A. - In: Quantitative economic history : the good of counting, (pp. 78-99). 2008
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Steam power, establishment size, and labor productivity growth in nineteenth century American manufacturing
Atack, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred; Margo, Robert A. - 2006
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Did railroads induce or follow economic growth? : Urbanization and population growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60
Atack, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred; Haines, Michael R.; … - 2009
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Steam power, establishment size, and labor productivity growth in nineteenth century American manufacturing
Atack, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred; Margo, Robert A. - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 45 (2008) 2, pp. 185-198
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Did railroads induce or follow economic growth? : urbanization and population growth in the American Midwest, 1850 - 60
Atack, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred; Haines, Michael R.; … - 2009
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