Using information collected from American Economic Review publications of the last 100 years, we try to provide answers to various questions: Which are the top AER publishing institutions and countries? Which are the top AER papers based on citation success? How frequently is someone able to...

The significant difference in saving rates between the United States (near-zero) and the developing nations (exceeding 30%) is a contributing explanation for the record U.S. current-account deficit, now almost 700 billion USD per year. Analytic support for this conclusion is provided herein by...

This appendix describes in detail the college site selection decisions used in the paper "How Do Institutions of Higher Education Affect Local Invention? Evidence from the Establishment of U.S. Colleges" (Andrews 2020)

After the development of Atlantic trade in the nineteenth century, the United States of America (US) became economically important place, attracting to a labour flow from neighbouring countries and other continents. Meanwhile, serious economic and political shocks were experienced by the Ottoman...

This article explores Douglass North’s intellectual development as a political economist and an interdisciplinary researcher. Although he was an important figure during the cliometrics revolution, he later grew dissatisfied with the approach and went on to study institutions, helping to...

In applied historical research, geographic units often differ in level of aggregation across datasets. One solution is to use crosswalks that associate factors located within one geographic unit to another, based on their relative areas. We develop an alternative approach based on relative...

Has the global financial crisis of 2007ff had a visible impact on the economics profession? To answer this question we employ a bibliometric approach and compare the content and orientation of economic literature before and after the crisis with reference to two different samples: A large-scale...

For more than a decade now [i.e., ca. 1983], historians of technology in the United States have been engaged in a collective historiographic endeavor to generate a "conceptual framework" or set of "organizing themes" that would finally give some coherence to the history of technology as an...

Since the 1970s, economic inequality has soared dramatically across the globe and particularly in the United States. In that time, one of the obstacles of using fiscal policy to address inequality has been the growing myth of the “overtaxed American”—the misguided notion that U.S....

This paper introduces four new intergenerational and multigenerational datasets which follow both sons and daughters and which can be used to study the persistence of longevity, socioeconomic status, family structure, and geographic mobility across generations. The data follow the children of...