British Master and Servant law made employee contract breach a criminal offense until 1875. We develop a contracting … model generating equilibrium contract breach and prosecutions, then exploit exogenous changes in output prices to examine … prosecutions, and wages responded more to labor demand shocks. Coercive contract enforcement was applied in industrial Britain …

prosecutions, as breaking an employee contract was a criminal offense until 1875. We first reproduce all regression tables in Naidu …

British Master and Servant law made employee contract breach a criminal offense until 1875. We develop a contracting … model generating equilibrium contract breach and prosecutions, then exploit exogenous changes in output prices to examine … prosecutions, and wages responded more to labor demand shocks. Coercive contract enforcement was applied in industrial Britain …

dictum that progressive societies move from status to contract. We conduct a macro-historical quantitative inquiry into Maine …'s dictum using corpora on 16th- to 18th-century caselaw and print culture. Upon conceptualizing the notions of contract and … status, we train word embeddings on each corpus and produce time series of emphases on contract, status, and contract versus …