The Iron and Steel Shipbuilding Data Set, 1825-1914: Sources, Coverage, and Coding Decisions

This article is a supporting document to my paper “Selection and Firm Survival. Evidence from the Shipbuilding Industry, 1825-1914”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(1):26-36, February 2005. The article provides a basic description of data sources, coverage and limitations, along with coding decisions made for the purposes of statistical analysis. The data are available at http://www.fiu.edu/~thompsop/data/shipbuilding/shipbuilding.html.

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Year of publication:	2008-08
Authors:	Thompson, Peter
Institutions:	Department of Economics, Florida International University

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 0807 23 pages
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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