Building on the work of McCalla, McInnis and others we describe the early income of Upper Canada over the period 1826 to 1851. The Municipal Assessments, which report ownership of land, livestock and other property, allow us to develop conjectural estimates of farm income; and various Provincial...

Building on the work of McCalla, McInnis and others we describe the early income of Upper Canada over the period 1826 to 1851. The Municipal Assessments, which report ownership of land, livestock and other property, allow us to develop conjectural estimates of farm income; and various Provincial...

Based largely on the Fifteenth Annual Report of the U.S. Department of Labor, published in 1900, we have built a sample of wages and hours for roughly fifty countries in six continents that covers the period 1890-1900. The Report, which is drawn from official (national) publications, gives...

The smallpox epidemic of 1781-82 in the Hudson Bay region reportedly devastated the native population, causing mortality of at least 50 percent. We reassess this claim. We total smallpox deaths reported by two trading posts in the path of the epidemic. Next we review mortality from smallpox in...

We draw wide-ranging implications about slave productivity change by making use of newly collected data on the prices paid for nearly 230,000 slaves as they arrived in the Americas from Africa between 1674 and 1807. Prices for the product that most slaves were destined to produce - sugar - are...

This paper proves the existence of a general equilibrium in a financial model with transaction costs. The general equilibrium is shown to exist in a model with convex trading technology, in which the agents include consumers, production firms, brokers and dealers. When the trading technology is...

This paper provides estimates for Canada of the impact of child care costs on female labour supply. This is done by linking two Statistics Canada microdata sources. Specifically, the data used in this paper are from the 1988 National Child Care Survey and the 1988 Monthly (September) Labour...

We consider a competitive extraction industry comprising many small firms, each with a slightly different quality of mineral holdings. With "rapidly" declining quality of holding per firm, we observe rent declining over an interval. We then take up the familiar planning model and isolate the tax...