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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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Estimating the shape of economic crises under heterogeneity
Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - 2009
During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 24, pp. 1-19
distinguish between the case of Latin America and that of the USA. Overall, I show that the slave trades exert a lasting impact …
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An empty promise: Average cost savings and scale economies among Canadian and American manufacturers, 1910 - 1988
Keay, Ian - 2001
During the debate that led up to the implementation of a bilateral free trade agreement between Canada and the U.S. on January 1, 1989, much was made of economists' claims that both nations could expect significant welfare improvements as a result of the removal of tariffs on traded goods. The...
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The cliometrics of international migration: A survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied economics to investigate a range of historical issues and there are strong parallels with the...
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
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Real Options Analysis of Fishing Fleet Dynamics: A Test
Bosetti, Valentina; Tomberlin, David - 2004
-entry fishery. Because exit from limited-entry fisheries may be irreversible, the fisherman has an incentive to maintain the right … fleets, one of the most pressing fisheries management issues in limited-entry (and other) fisheries around the world. To …
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Threshold Effects in Coral Reef Fisheries
Crépin, Anne Sophie - 2003
-dominated states. Threshold effects have consequences for fisheries management, which are analyzed for open access fisheries and sole …
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A Coalition Game of the Baltic Sea Cod Fishery
Kronbak, Lone Grønbæk - 2004
The paper sets up a discrete-time, deterministic, coalition game model among the major agents exploiting the cod stock in Baltic Sea. The characteristic func-tion is constructed and the Shapley value and the nucleolus are used as one-point solution concepts. The paper identifies the problem with...
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