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household choice of children's quantity versus quality. The setting is in Anhui Province, China over the 13th to 20th centuries …
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China's Cultural Revolution to understand how these beliefs can be affected, how they impact behavior, and how they are … transmitted across generations. During the Cultural Revolution, China's college admission system based on entrance exams was …
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this paper we examine the impact of China's opium legalization on the quantity and price of British opium exports from … India to China during the 19th century. We find little evidence that legalization increased exports or decreased price. Thus …, the evidence suggests China's opium prohibition had a minimal impact on opium consumption …
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This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …
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We argue that China, with its long history, a relatively stable political system, and multiple regime changes, provides …
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due to an increase in public employment? We argue that China, with its long history, a centralized political system, and …
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The Ottoman Empire had a profound impact in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at the apogee of its power, covering the era between 1453 C. E. and 1699 C. E. In this paper, I exploit the empire's unique culture and institutions to examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and...
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The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the beginning of the 19th century onwards. It was from this point in time that wage labour slowly came into being and later on developed more broadly. At first, state regulations were...
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We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality...
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The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system took place and trace back the development of wage...
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