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 …

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 …

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 …

substitutes for one another. The Walker tariff of 1846, for example, reduced the duties on cotton textiles from nearly 70 percent …Recent research has suggested that the antebellum U.S. cotton textile industry would have been wiped out had it not … received tariff protection. We reaffirm Taussig's judgment that the U.S. cotton textile industry was largely independent of the …

(horizontal differentiation). The market context is Japan's cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last century. We find that …

During the first half of of the nineteenth century the United States emerged as a major producer of cotton textiles … cotton textiles in the tariff bill of 1816, and during the 1820s manufacturers won increasingly strong protection …

The boll weevil spread across the Southern United States from 1892 to 1922 having a devastating impact on cotton …

unanticipated and large, they are a plausible instrument for identifying the impact of exporting on firm productivity and other … that export growth leads to increases firm productivity and other firm performance measures. Consistent with "earning …-by-exporting", the productivity impact of export growth is greater when firms export to more developed countries …

task allocation across workers changes in response to productivity shocks. Pairing hourly productivity data from a ready …-made garments firm with granular data on exposure to particulate matter pollution, we show that productivity suffers as a result of … resulting productivity declines …