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The in-hospital mortality rates of slaves and freemen: evidence from Touro infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 - 1860

Pritchett, Jonathan; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2008

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze...

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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011

determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial … gap. The excludability of slavery is preliminarily established by instrumenting it with the share of disembarked slaves … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

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The aggregate Le Chatelier Samuelson principle with Cournot competition

Koebel, Bertrand M.; Laisney, François - 2010

This paper studies the aggregate substitution and expansion effects triggered by changes in input prices, in a context where firms supply a homogenous commodity and compete in quantities à la Cournot. We derive a sufficient condition for the existence of a Cournot equilibrium and show that this...

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Interaction and non-neutral effects of factors in Chinese wheat production

Selim, Sheikh; Parvin, Naima; Patel, Vasita - 2010

In this paper we examine the role of the interaction between labour productivity and the use of factors in explaining the recent (1998-2007) 11% decline in wheat production in China. We employ a non-neutral stochastic production frontier approach that enables us to identify the interaction and...

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Slavery, vagrancy and poverty: A journey between picaresque fiction and social control in early modern Valencia

Filioli Uranio, Fabrizio - In: The Journal of European Economic History (JEEH) 51 (2022) 1, pp. 155-173

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Using firm optimization to evaluate and estimate returns to scale

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2008

At the firm level, revenue and costs are well measured but prices and quantities are not. This paper shows that because of these data limitations estimates of returns to scale at the firm level are for the revenue function, not production function. Given this observation, the paper argues that,...

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The Elasticities of Complementarity and Substitution

Broer, Peter - 2004

This paper argues that the conventional definition of the elasticity of complementarity is not well suited to deal with the case of increasing returns. It proposes a slightly different formula, that uses a distance function formulation instead of a production function. The proposed definition...

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Returns-to-scale properties in DEA models: The fundmantal role of interior points

Krivonozhko, Vladimir; Førsund, Finn R. - 2009

Attempts can be found in the DEA literature to identify returns to scale at efficient interior points of the production possibility set on the basis of returns to scale at points of the corresponding reference sets. However, an opposite approach is put forward in this paper, advocating that...

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Analysis of the economic viability for representative wheat farms given alternative farm policies proposed by the national association of wheat growers

Richardson, James W.; Raulston, J. Marc; Knapek, George M. - 2006

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... and six hundred thousand men were dead

Grossman, Herschel I. - 2003

proximately concerned the geographical expansion of slavery, but ultimately bore on the existence of the institution of slavery … itself. This paper asks why in 1861 after seventy years of artful compromises over slavery Northern and Southern interests … slavery for both Northern and Southern interests in the years leading up to 1861 was the critical development that led to war …

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