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Sailing ship technology, navigation and the duration of voyages to Australia, 1848-85
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050137
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Emigrant voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2023
times for emigrants from the UK traveling to the United States and to Australia. Between 1853-7 and 1909-13 the voyage time … times are explained with a focus on the relative efficiency of sail and steam and (for Australia) the use of the Suez Canal … voyages. Econometric analysis of UK emigration to the US, Canada and Australia supports the view that time costs mattered. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311200
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The political economy of assisted immigration : Australia 1860-1913
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2023
From 1860 to 1913 the six colonies that became states of Australia strove to attract migrants from the UK with a … to Australia reduced the need for assisted migration, slumps in the UK increased the take-up of assisted passages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311687
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Time on the crossing : emigrant voyages across the Atlantic, 1853 to 1913
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2023
From 1860 to 1913 the six colonies that became states of Australia strove to attract migrants from the UK with a … to Australia reduced the need for assisted migration, slumps in the UK increased the take-up of assisted passages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310929
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Why U.S. immigration barriers matter for the global advancement of science
Agarwal, Ruchir; Ganguli, Ina; Gaulé, Patrick; Smith, Geoff - 2021
This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge network- representing 20-33% of the frontier knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404675
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Emigrant Voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2023
times for emigrants from the UK traveling to the United States and to Australia. Between 1853-7 and 1909-13 the voyage time … times are explained with a focus on the relative efficiency of sail and steam and (for Australia) the use of the Suez Canal … voyages. Econometric analysis of UK emigration to the US, Canada and Australia supports the view that time costs mattered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347084
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The Gun-Slave Hypothesis and the 18th Century British Slave Trade
Whatley, Warren C. - 2017
The Gun-Slave Hypothesis is the long-standing idea that European gunpowder technology played a key role in growing the transatlantic slave trade. I combine annual data from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database and the Anglo-African Trade Statistics to estimate a Vector Error Correction Model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624384
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Sex and the Mission : The Conflicting Effects of Early Christian Investments on the HIV Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cage, Julia - 2018
This article investigates the long-term historical impact of missionary activity on the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. On the one hand, missionaries were among the first to invest in modern medicine in a number of countries. On the other hand, Christianity influenced sexual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933372
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The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cage, Julia - 2014
This article delves into the relationship between newspaper readership and civic attitudes, and its effect on economic development. To this end, we investigate the long-term consequences of the introduction of the printing press in the 19th century. In sub-Saharan Africa, Protestant missionaries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063516
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Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa
Robinson, James Alan; Chaves, Isaías N.; Engerman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
One of the great puzzles of Sub-Saharan African economic history is that wheeled transportation was barely used prior to the colonial period. Instead, head porterage was the main method of transportation. The consensus among historians is that this was a rational adaption to the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969217