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Colonial legacies and wealth inequality in Kenya 肯尼亚的殖民遗产与财富不平等
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101623
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Corporations and partnerships: Factory productivity in late Imperial Russia 公司与伙伴关系：帝国晚期俄罗斯的工厂生产力
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-08-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101621
{"title":"Corporations and partnerships: Factory productivity in late Imperial Russia","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101621","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101621","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using factory-level data from an official manufacturing census, I examine productivity among two forms of enterprise in the Russian Empire from around 1908. I find that despite having 60 times more financial capital, factories owned by corporations did not outperform those owned by ordinary and limited partnerships. Although corporations were more mechanized per worker, both enterprise forms attained equal capital and labor productivity and total factor productivity. Corporations attained higher labor productivity than partnerships only in the metals and machinery industry. These findings suggest that Russian factories used the corporate form's unique advantages in a rather limited way: to build larger factories and undertake larger projects, but not to enhance productivity beyond the level of the partnership form. I also find that there were fewer accidents per worker at partnership-owned factories than at corporations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142144230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858–2018 英格兰和威尔士的种族财富不平等，1858-2018 年
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101617
{"title":"Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858–2018","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101617","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101617","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using surnames from the universe of death and wealth-at-death records in England and Wales, from 1858 to 2018, I document the emergence of a modern ethnic wealth gradient. Historically, Non-British ethnicities have average wealth 2–5 times that of the English. However, this premium has decreased over the 20th century. By 1980, non-British ethnicities have no advantage over the British. However, this masks considerable heterogeneity within the non-British ethnicity group. Europeans typically die significantly richer than the English whereas the Pakistani and Swedish die significantly poorer. Some groups always have lower wealth. The Irish, have wealth around 50% of the average English throughout. Surprisingly, the most egalitarian measure of wealth is representation within the top 1%. Most ethnicities have an equal, or greater, representation in the top 1% than the English, 1980–1992. Despite large differences in average wealth between ethnicities, the vast majority of variation, 97.5% is between individuals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498324000433/pdfft?md5=f9f06f75618f045bc73419d02a79b0c1&pid=1-s2.0-S0014498324000433-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142121657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony 生育率对短期经济压力的反应：过渡前殖民地的价格波动和财富冲击
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101620
{"title":"Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101620","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the effects of short-term economic stress, captured by general price volatility and a negative wealth shock on short-run fertility behavior in the rural pre-transitional society of the Cape Colony. First, we link complete birth histories of settler women from the South African Families database to consumer price index data to examine the effect of price volatility on conceptions. Next, we link the same birth histories to slave owner and slave emancipation data to examine the effect of a negative wealth shock on conception. Upon slave emancipation in 1834, former slave owners received on average only between 40 and 50 % of the market value of their slaves as compensation, resulting in a substantial reduction in their wealth. Relying on event history models that look simultaneously at stopping and spacing, we do not find strong evidence in support of fertility control in response to general price volatility. We do find greater variance in birth interval lengths for former slaveholding households during and immediately after emancipation, suggesting that a negative wealth shock is associated with increased fertility limitation through postponement in this context.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498324000469/pdfft?md5=0d49afd2c88aedfbe9f006be89c51f3c&pid=1-s2.0-S0014498324000469-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142058019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China? 交通、分散化和路径依赖：老式有轨电车如何塑造了中国上海？
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101619
{"title":"Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China?","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101619","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101619","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article studies the short- and long-run economic consequences of the now-extinct Shanghai tramway. Tramway was the primary mode of transportation in Shanghai between 1908 and the 1930s, continuing to operate until 1975. With the geolocation of the tramway lines on both historical cadastral maps and current Google maps, the article finds that after the arrival of the tramway, land lots close to the tramway lines experienced a larger increase in land value relative to those far away from the tramway lines, and that the reduction in transportation costs led to a flattening land value gradient with respect to distance from the central business district (CBD). It also finds that the tramway still influences the current pattern of urban land value, even nearly fifty years after the removal of the last tramway track. Such persistent influence can be largely explained by the follow-on amenities near the tramway lines. The evidence found in this article suggests that the tramway in Shanghai promoted decentralization by enhancing accessibility to the CBD from distant locations in its heyday, and influences modern behaviors through the mutually reinforced private and public coordination of economic activities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141998430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Land reform and agrarian socialism in interwar Europe: Evidence from 1930s Spain before civil war 战时欧洲的土地改革和农业社会主义：内战前 1930 年代西班牙的证据
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-08-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101618
{"title":"Land reform and agrarian socialism in interwar Europe: Evidence from 1930s Spain before civil war","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101618","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101618","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper studies the effects of various types of land reform on the voting of the rural poor in a developing, largely agrarian economy such as 1930s Spain. Using municipal-level electoral results in a region with intense but heterogeneous land-related interventions, we find that permanent transfers of land had the greatest positive impact on voting for leftist candidates, followed by temporary transfers of land aimed at alleviating the problem of seasonal unemployment. Poorly planned temporary transfers of land without adequate funding for beneficiaries made the landless more vulnerable to landowner control and had the opposite result. Our results show that the secret ballot might be insufficient to guarantee the free vote of economically dependent landless laborers. They also show that land reforms with poor support for beneficiaries might backfire.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498324000445/pdfft?md5=165fa7addbdbc2f2a02e799e193a5c00&pid=1-s2.0-S0014498324000445-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142136912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Bank failures and economic activity: Evidence from the progressive era 银行倒闭与经济活动：进步时代的证据
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-07-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101616
{"title":"Bank failures and economic activity: Evidence from the progressive era","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101616","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101616","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>During the Progressive Era (1900–29), economic growth was rapid but volatile. Boom and busts witnessed the formation and failure of tens of thousands of firms and thousands of banks. This essay uses new data and methods to identify causal links between failures of banks and bankruptcies of firms. Our analysis indicates that bank failures triggered bankruptcies of firms that depended upon banks for ongoing access to commercial credit. Firms that did not depend upon banks for credit did not fail in appreciably larger numbers after banks failed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141909652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Institutional discrimination and assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 制度性歧视与同化：来自 1882 年《排华法案》的证据
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101615
{"title":"Institutional discrimination and assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101615","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101615","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 marked a pivotal moment in U.S. immigration policy, effectively prohibiting Chinese immigration while institutionalizing discrimination against Asians within American society. This study investigates the repercussions of such institutional discrimination on the assimilation process of Asian immigrants, leveraging the timing of the enactment of the Act and the regional variation in the intensity of discrimination. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that discrimination posed significant obstacles to the labor market integration of Asian immigrants during the Exclusion Era (1882–1943), and Asian immigrants responded to discriminatory practices by investing in human capital, enhancing English proficiency, and adopting Americanized names. Furthermore, the triple-difference estimates reveal that these effects are more pronounced in regions characterized by heightened discrimination against Asians.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141877793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain 印刷文化与经济制约：十八世纪英国图书价格的定量分析
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-07-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101614
{"title":"Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101614","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101614","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Who could afford books in the late early-modern period? We explore how prices related to the demand for books in eighteenth-century Britain by analysing extensive bibliographic and socio-economic data based on Bayesian statistics and machine learning. Our results quantify in financial terms the difficulty of buying print products faced by most British households in the eighteenth century, and how this related to the varying levels of supply across price segments. We found no evidence of the well known claim that legislation would have led to lower prices. The inadequate supply and high cost of books make it likely that only higher-income households bought them regularly from the primary market.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498324000408/pdfft?md5=ad3cbaf2082eaae945ae3c8aa0f407a1&pid=1-s2.0-S0014498324000408-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141711366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Did the 1917–21 economic depression accelerate the epidemiological transition? Milk prices, summer peak of mortality, and food-and-water causes of death in Madrid, Spain 1917-21 年的经济萧条是否加速了流行病学的转型？西班牙马德里的牛奶价格、夏季死亡高峰以及食物和水的死亡原因
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101613
{"title":"Did the 1917–21 economic depression accelerate the epidemiological transition? Milk prices, summer peak of mortality, and food-and-water causes of death in Madrid, Spain","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101613","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101613","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article aims to answer a provocative question: would higher prices, particularly that of milk, be beneficial for the survival of children under 2 years old? Using a database of more than 230,000 births, matched to deaths, we test this hypothesis in the context of a large Mediterranean city, Madrid, in the years 1915–1926. During this period an inflationary crisis spread from 1917 to 1921. We compare child survival, the impact of milk price fluctuations, and the summer mortality peak, controlling for socio-spatial segregation and considering all-cause mortality and mortality due to food- and water-borne illnesses, before, during and after the economic depression. A positive association between increases in the milk price and better chances of survival is statistically robust, but only observed during depression. Several explanations are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498324000391/pdfft?md5=93a84aa8c40b3d73ec55ce3a2cf7f501&pid=1-s2.0-S0014498324000391-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141630225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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