Between 1800 and 1860, the United States became the preeminent world supplier of cotton as output increased sixty …-fold. Technological changes, including the introduction of improved cotton varieties, contributed significantly to this growth. Measured … output per worker in the cotton sector rose four-fold and large regional differences emerged. By 1840, output per worker in …

that the shock to cotton textiles was transmitted to other local firms, leading to increased bankruptcies and long …-specific shock to the British cotton textile industry caused by the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), which dramatically reduced supplies … of raw cotton. Because the British cotton textile industry was heavily concentrated in towns in Northwest England, I …

This paper provides estimates of both national and global welfare costs of bilateral quotas on textiles and apparel … using an applied general equilibrium model which covers bilateral quotas on exports of textiles and apparel negotiated …

international competition, each industry has evolved in its own way. In textiles, there has been tremendous capitalization. In … apparel, the organization of production has changed. In both cases, industry productivity has increased markedly, and this is …

that this dominance is inconsistent with use of a productivity-based allocation of quota licenses by the Chinese government …. Our counterfactual implies that elimination of misallocated quotas raised the overall productivity gain of quota removal …

We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers …. Using detailed operational, financial, and ownership data from the Japanese cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last … century, we find a more nuanced picture than the straightforward "higher productivity buys lower productivity" story commonly …

dynamic approach. Drawing on the records of 142 plantations with 509 crops years, we show that the average daily cotton … picking rate increased about four-fold between 1801 and 1862. We argue that the development and diffusion of new cotton … South's preeminence in the world cotton market, the pace of westward expansion, and the importance of indigenous …

adopted – take time to be reflected in aggregate productivity statistics. Before mechanization, cotton spinning was performed … plant productivity distribution of new technology adopters in mechanized cotton spinning. We find that this distribution was … technological change: The diffusion of mechanized cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution in France. We document new …

This paper investigates the dynamic impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm output in rural Zambia. Following … liberalization and the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board, the sector developed an outgrower scheme whereby cotton … subsistence and cotton yields per hectare declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme, farmers devoted larger shares of …

estimates. To assess the importance of these assumptions, we examine two natural experiments: the recession in cotton textile … adjusting for migration, we find that mortality increased during the cotton recession, but was largely unaffected by the coal …