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Consumer Behavior and Immigrant Assimilation : A comparison of the United States, Britain and Germany, 1889/1890

Haines, Michael R. - 1989

taken into account. Comparisons of Engel curves are also made to households in Great Britain and Germany. Results from …

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The Poor and the Dead : Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the U.S., 1850-1860

Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2001

Despite the significant research on aggregate trends in mortality and physical stature in the middle of the nineteenth century, little evidence on the individual-level characteristics associated with premature mortality has been presented. This essay describes a new project that links...

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The Urban Mortality Transition in the United States, 1800-1940

Haines, Michael R. - 2001

In the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a substantial mortality 'penalty' to living in urban places. This circumstance was shared with other nations. By around 1940, this penalty had been largely eliminated, and it was healthier, in many cases, to reside in the city...

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A Wolfram in Sheep's Clothing : U.S. Economic Warfare in Spain, 1940-1944

Caruana, Leonard - 2001

when Germany was going from victory to victory, was successful in helping keep Spain neutral because it forced the Franco … regime to rethink the costs of joining the war. Pre-emptive buying of wolfram was also successful. It forced Germany to pay … Germany, was not fully realized. Several special circumstances, in particular the naval blockade and the tendency of sanctions …

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Social Reformers and Regulation : The Prohibition of Cigarettes in the U.S. and Canada

Alston, Lee J. - 2000

The apogee of anti-smoking legislation in North America was reached early in the last century. In 1903, the Canadian Parliament passed a resolution prohibiting the manufacture, importation, and sale of cigarettes. Around the same time, fifteen states in the United States banned the sale of...

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"Development, Health, Nutrition, and Mortality : The Case of the 'Antebellum Puzzle' in the United States"

Haines, Michael R. - 2000

The Antebellum Puzzle' describes the situation of declining stature and rising mortality in the three decades prior to the American Civil War (1861-65). It is labeled a puzzle, since this period was one of rapid economic growth and development in the United States. Much of the debate regarding...

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How Long Did It Take the United States to Become an Optimal Currency Area?

Rockoff, Hugh - 2000

The United States is often taken to be the exemplar of the benefits of a monetary union. Since 1788 Americans, with the exception of the Civil War years, have been able to buy and sell goods, travel, and invest within a vast area without ever having to be concerned about changes in exchange...

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Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living : Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States

Haines, Michael R. - 2000

This paper examines variations in stature and the Body Mass Index (BMI) across space for the United States in 1917/18, using published data on the measurement of approximately 890,000 recruits for the American Army for World War I. It also connects those anthropometric measurements with an index...

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A Brief History of Education in the United States

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

This essay is the companion piece to about 550 individual data series on education to be included in the updated Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition (Cambridge University Press 2000, forthcoming). The essay reviews the broad outlines of U.S. educational history from...

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Historical Perspectives on the Economic Consequences of Immigration into the United States

Carter, Susan B. - 1997

This paper highlights the distinctive features of the theoretical approach taken by scholars" who analyzed the impacts of the mass migration into the United States in the two decades" preceding World War I. Broadly speaking, this literature was couched in terms of the "aggregate" production...

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