Economic growth before 1860 : revised conjectures / Thomas Weiss -- U.S. financial markets and long-term economic growth, 1790-1989 / Richard Sylla, Jack W. Wilson, and Charles P. Jones -- U.S. migration, 1850-59 / Donald Schaefer -- Economic history and economic development : an American...

We construct decadal estimates of GDP per capita for the colonies and states of the Mid-Atlantic region between 1720 and 1800. They show that the region likely achieved modest improvements in per capita GDP over this period despite a number of demographic factors that tended to slow the pace of...