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Slavery, vagrancy and poverty: A journey between picaresque fiction and social control in early modern Valencia

Filioli Uranio, Fabrizio - In: The Journal of European Economic History (JEEH) 51 (2022) 1, pp. 155-173

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The in-hospital mortality rates of slaves and freemen: evidence from Touro infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 - 1860

Pritchett, Jonathan; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2008

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze...

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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011

determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial … gap. The excludability of slavery is preliminarily established by instrumenting it with the share of disembarked slaves … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

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Russia's agriculture: eight years in transition - convergence or divergence of regional efficiency

Uvarovsky, Vladimir; Voigt, Peter - 2000

In this paper, we consider how Russian Agriculture has developed since the constitution of the Russian Federation. The analysis is based on Oblast level data of 75 territorial units during the period from 1993 to 1998 and is focusing on technical efficiency (TE), technological change, and (both...

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Trip-Level Analysis of Efficiency Changes in Oregons Deepwater Trawl Fishery

Tomberlin, David; Holloway, Garth - 2007

In 2003, an industry-financed, government-administered buyback of trawl fishing permits and vessels took place on the US West Coast, resulting in the retirement of about one-third of the limited-entry trawl fleet. The lack of cost data in this fishery precludes an analysis of how the buyback has...

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Are EU Candidate Countries Ready for the Single Market? Comparing Performance with an EU Benchmark

De Loecker, Jan - 2002

The process of the East-West integration has come to a point that enlargement appears inevitable. But are these countries really ready to join the EU in tfirms of competitive perfirmance? Firstly, we construct a virtual best practice production frontier for firms active in a European Union...

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The Distribution and Heterogeneity of Technical Efficiency within Industries: An Empirical Assessment

Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004

This paper analyzes the distribution of technical efficiency within manufacturing industries. Using a representative sample of 35,000 firms in 255 industries of the German cost structure census, technical efficiencies are estimated by applying a deterministic frontier production function with...

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Allocative Efficiency Measurement Revisited: Do We Really Need Input Prices?

Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2006

The traditional approach to measuring allocative efficiency is based on input prices, which are rarely known at the firm level. This paper proposes a new approach to measure allocative efficiency which is based on the output-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit – technical efficiency...

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What determines the efficiency of regional innovation systems?

Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2007

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function. This function relates private sector research and development (R&D) activity in a region to the number of inventions that have been registered by residents of that region....

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Industry specialization, diversity and the efficiency of regional innovation systems

Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2007

Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may arise from such interactions. On the one hand, a close location of actors affiliated to the same industry may stimulate innovation (MAR externalities). On the other hand, new...

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