Explorations in Economic History
New York, Kent State University
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ISSN: 0014-4983
Conservata in: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali
– Punto di servizio: Economia – Coll: Riv. Str. 0572
Consistenza: v. 25, 1988, 1-v. 38, 2001, 4
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Consistenza: v. 17, 1980, 1-
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Tarik M. Yousef, The Political Economy of Interwar Egyptian
Cotton Policy, p. 301
Chris Minns, Income, Cohort Effects, and Occupational Mobility:
A New Look at Immigration to the United States at the Turn of
the 20th Century, p. 326
Jörg Baten, John E. Murray, Heights of Men and Women
in 19th-Century Bavaria: Economic, Nutritional, and Disease Influences, p. 351
Barbara Alexander, Gary D. Libecap, The Effect of Cost Heterogeneity
in the Success and Failure of the New Deal’s Agricultural and
Industrial Programs, p. 370
Ian Keay, Scapegoats or Responsive Entrepreneurs: Canadian
Manufacturers, 1907-1990, p. 217
Daniel A. Ackerberg, Maristella Botticini, The Choice of Agrarian
Contracts in Early Renaissance Tuscany: Risk Sharing, Moral Hazard,
or Capital Market Imperfections?, p. 241
Thomas R. Walker, Economic Opportunity on the Urban Frontier:
Wealth and Nativity in Early San Francisco, p. 258
Douglas A. Irwin, Could the United States Iron Industry Have
Survived Free Trade after the Civil War?, p. 278
R. Alton Gilbert, The Advent of the Federal Reserve and
the Efficiency of the Payments System: The Collection of Checks,
1915-1930, p. 121
Mette Ejrnæs, Karl Gunnar Persson, Market Integration
and Transport Costs in France 1825-1903: A Threshold Error Correction
Approach to the Law of One Price, p. 149
Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell, Rowntree Revisited: Poverty in
Britain, 1900, p. 174
Byron Lew, The Diffusion of Tractors on the Canadian Praires:
The Threshold Model and the Problem of Uncertainty, p. 189
Leandro Prados de la Escosura, International Comparisons
of Real Product, 1820-1990: An Alternative Data Set, p. 1
Farley Grubb, The Statutory Regulation of Colonial Servitude:
An Incomplete-Contract Approach, p. 42
Marc D. Weidenmier, The Market for Confederate Cotton Bonds, p. 76
David Greasley, Les Oxley, British Industrialization, 1815-1860:
A Disaggregate Time-Series Perspective, p. 98
Caroline Fohlin, Universal Banking in Pre-World War I Germany:
Model or Myth?, p. 305
Gary Bryan Magee, Technological Development and Foreign Patenting:
Evidence from 19th-Century Australia, p. 344
Sukkoo Kim, The Rise of Multiunit Firms in U.S. Manufacturing, p. 360
Chulhee Lee, Farm Value and Retirement of Farm Owners in Early-Twentieth-Century
America, p. 387
Brian C. Gendreau, Risk Structure of Postbellum U.S. Deposit
Rates, p. 409
Mae Baker, Michael Collins, Financial Crises and Structural
Change in English Commercial Bank Assets, 1860-1913, p. 426
Adam Klug, Gregor W. Smith, Suez and Sterling, 1956, p. 181
Michael Huberman, Denise Young, Cross-Border Unions: Internationals
in Canada, 1901-1914, p. 204
Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans, Tomas Nonnenmacher, A Theoretical
Basis for 19th-Century Changes to the Port of New York Imported
Goods Auction, p. 232
William J. Collins, Labor Mobility, Market Integration, and
Wage Convergence in Late 19th Century India, p. 246
Howard Bodenhorn, An Engine of Growth: Real Bills and Schumpeterian
Banking in Antebellum New York, p. 278
Announcement, p. 303
Moshe Justman, Mark Gradstein, The Industrial Revolution,
Political Transition, and the Subsequent Decline in Inequality
in 19th-Century Britain, p. 109
Robert A. Margo, Regional Wage Gaps and the Settlement of
the Midwest, p. 128
Jeremy Atack, Peter L. Rousseau, Business Activity and the
Boston Stock Market, 1835-1869, p. 144
William James Adams, The Political Economy of Agriculture
in France’s Fifth Republic, p. 1
Simone A. Wegge, To Part or Not to Part: Emigration and Inheritance
Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Hesse-Cassel, p. 30
Alan G. Green, Gordon R. Sparks, Population Growth and the
Dynamics of Canadian Development: A Multivariate Time Series
Approach, p. 56
Carolyn M. Moehling, State Child Labor Laws and the Decline
of Child Labor, p. 72
Erratum, p. 107
Aidan Hollis, Arthur Sweetman, Microcredit in Prefamine
Ireland, p. 347
Ellis Tallman, Jon Moen, Gold Shocks, Liquidity, and the United
States Economy during the National Banking Era, p. 381
Barry K. Goodwin, Thomas J. Grennes, Tsarist Russia and the
World Wheat Market, p. 405
C. R. Winegarden, John E. Murray, The Contributions of Early
Health-Insurance Programs to Mortality Declines in Pre-World
War I Europe: Evidence from Fixed-Effects Models, p. 431
Jeffrey G. Williamson, Growth, Distribution, and Demography:
Some Lessons from History, p. 241
Thomas N. Maloney, Racial Segregation, Working Conditions,
and Workers’ Health: Evidence from the A. M. Byers Company, 1916-1930, p. 272
Livio Di Matteo, Wealth Accumulation and the Life-Cycle in
Economic History: Implications of Alternative Approaches to Data, p. 296
Carlos Newland, Barry Poulson, Purely Animal: Pastoral Production
and Early Argentine Economic Growth 1825-1865, p. 325
Announcement, p. 346
Price a. Fishback, Shawn Everett Kantor, The Political
Economy of Workers’ Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910-1930, p. 109
John Joseph Wallis, The Political Economy of New Deal Spending
Revisited, Again: With and without Nevada, p. 140
David Greasley, Les Oxley, Comparing British and American
Economic and Industrial Performance 1860-1993: A Time Series
Perspective, p. 171
John Sedgwick, Michael Pokorny, The Risk Environment of Film
Making: Warner Bros in the Inter-War Years, p. 196
Catherine R. Schenk, The Origins of the Eurodollar Market
in London: 1955-1963, p. 221
Announcements, p. 239
Thràinn Eggertsson, Sources of Risk, Institutions
for Survival, and a Game against Nature in Premodern Iceland, p. 1
Trish Kelly, Ability and Willingness to Pay in the Age of
Pax Britannica, 1890-1914, p. 31
Gregory Clark, Land Hunger: Land as a Commodity and as a Status
Good, England, 1500-1910, p. 59
Caroline Fohlin, “Fiduciari” and Firm Liquidity
Constraints: The Italian Experience with German-Style Universal
Banking, p. 83
Robert C. Allen, Agricultural Marketing and the Possibilities
for Industrialization in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, p. 387
Stephen Quinn, Goldsmith-Banking Mutual Acceptance and Interbanker
Clearing in Restoration London, p. 411
John Komlos, Peter Coclanis, On the Puzzling Cycle in the
Biological Standard of Living: The Case of Antebellum Georgia, p. 433
Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, Land, Factor Markets, and Inequality
in Rural China: Historical Evidence, p. 460
Karen Clay, Trade, Institutions, and Credit, p. 495
Announcements, p. 522
Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Viken Tchakerian, Manufacturing Where
Agriculture Predominates: Evidence from the South and Midwest
in 1860, p. 243
Fabrizio Mattesini, Beniamino Quintieri, Italy and the Great
Depression: An Analysis of the Italian Economy, 1929-1936, p. 265
Joseph P. Ferrie, The Entry into the U.S. Labor Market of
Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840-1860, p. 295
Akira Motomura, New Data on Minting, Seigniorage, and the
Money Supply in Spain (Castile), 1597-1643, p. 331
Paul Huck, Shifts in the Seasonality of Infant Deaths in Nine
English towns during the 19th Century: A Case for Reduced Breast
Feeding?, p. 368
Robert C. Allen, Agriculture and the Origins of the State
in Ancient Egypt, p. 135
Bishnupriya Gupta, Collusion in the Indian Tea Industry in
the Great Depression: An Analysis of Panel Data, p. 155
C. Paul Hallwood, Ronald MacDonald, Ian W. Marsh, Crash! Expectational
Aspects of the Departures of the United Kingdom and the United
States from the Inter-War Gold Standard, p. 174
Anthony Patrick O’Brien, The Importance of Adjusting Production
to Sales in the Early Automobile Industry, p. 195
Chibuike Ugochukwu Uche, Bank of England vs the IBRD: Did
the Nigerian Colony Deserve a Central Bank?, p. 220
Announcement, p. 242
Thierry Magnac, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Wage Competition between
Agriculture and Industry in Mid-Nineteenth Century France, p. 1
Chulhee Lee, Socioeconomic Background, Disease, and Mortality
among Union Army Recruits: Implications for Economic and Demographic
History, p. 27
George R. Boyer, Poor Relief, Informal Assistance, and Short
Time during the Lancashire Cotton Famine, p. 56
Jac C. Heckeiman, John Joseph Wallis, Railroads and Property
Taxes, p. 77
Alan M. Taylor, Peopling the Pampa: On the Impact of Mass
Migration to the River Plate, 1870-1914, p. 100
Announcement, p. 133
Marc Flandreau, Adjusting to the Gold Rush: Endogenous
Bullion Points and the French Balance of Payments 1846-1870, p. 417
Lea a. Carty, Regional Interest Rate Premia in the American
Railroad Bond Market from 1876 to 1890, p. 440
Walter Bauernfeind, Ulrich Woitek, Agrarian Cycles in Germany
1339-1670: A Spectral Analysis of Grain Prices and Output in
Nuremberg, p. 459
Ernst Juerg Weber, “Imaginary” or “Real” Moneys of Account in Medieval Europe? An Econometric Analysis
of the Basle Pound, 1365-1429, p. 479
Gillian Hamilton, The Market for Montreal Apprentices: Contract
Length and Information, p. 496
Mary Eschelbach Gregson, Wealth Accumulation and Distribution
in the Midwest in the Late Nineteenth Century, p. 524
Announcements, p. 541
Terence C. Mills, N. F. R. Crafts, Trend Growth in British
Industrial Output, 1700-1913: A Reappraisal, p. 277
Ian Gazeley, Patricia Rice, Wages and Employment in Britain
between the Wars: Quarterly Evidence from the Shipbuilding Industry, p. 296
Joyce Burnette, Testing for Occupational Crowding in Eighteenth-Century
British Agriculture, p. 319
Barton Hamilton, Mary MacKinnon, Quits and Layoffs in Early
Twentieth Century Labor Markets, p. 346
Roger Koppl, Leland B. Yeager, Big Players and Herding in
Asset Markets: The Case of the Russian Ruble, p. 367
Curtis J. Simon, Clark Nardinelli, The Talk of the town: Human
Capital, Information, and the Growth of English Cities, 1861
to 1961, p. 384
Announcements, p. 414
Joel Mokyr, Cormac Ó Gráda, Height and Health
in the United Kingdom 18 15-1860: Evidence from the East India
Company Army, p. 141
Frank D. Lewis, Agricultural Property and the 1948 Palestinian
Refugees: Assessing the Loss, p. 169
J. C. Herbert Emery, Risky Business? Nonactuarial Pricing
Practices and the Financial Viability of Fraternal Sickness Insurers, p. 195
Mark T. Kanazawa, Possession is Nine Points of the Law: The
Political Economy of Early Public Land Disposal, p. 227
Giovanni Federico, An Econometric Model of World Silk Production,
1870-1914, p. 250
Announcements, p. 275
Peter H. Lindert, What Limits Social Spending?, p. 1
Christopher Hanes, Immigrants’ Relative Rate of Wage Growth
in the Late 19th Century, p. 35
L. Lynne Klesling, Institutional Choice Matters: The Poor
Law and Implicit Labor Contracts in Victorian Lancashire, p. 65
John R. Hanson II, Human Capital and Direct Investment in
Poor Countries, p. 86
Margaret C. Levenstein, Do Price Wars Facilitate Collusion?
A Study of the Bromine Cartel before World War I, p. 107
Announcements, p. 138
Michael D. Bordo, Finn E. Kydland, The Gold Standard As
a Rule: An Essay in Exploration, p. 423
David Eltis, David Richardson, Productivity in the Transatlantic
Slave Trade, p. 465
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries, “The Exploitation of Little
Children”: Child Labor and the Family Economy in the Industrial
Revolution, p. 485
Jonathan B. Pritchett, Insan Tunali, Strangers’ Disease: Determinants
of Yellow Fever Mortality during the New Orleans Epidemic of
1853, p. 517
Dora L. Costa, Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in
Male Retirement Rates, p. 540
Erratum, p. 553
Ann M. Carlos, Frank D. Lewis, The Creative Financing of
an Unprofitable Enterprise: The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada,
1853-1881, p. 273
Olivier Jeanne, Monetary Policy in England 1893-19 14: A Structural
VAR Analysis, p. 302
S. N. Broadberry, A. Ritschl, Real Wages, Productivity and
Unemployment in Britain and Germany during the 1920s, p. 327
Anne Booth, Real Domestic Income of Indonesia, 1880-1989:
A Comment and an Estimate, p. 350
Clemens J. M. Kool, War Finance and Interest Rate Targeting:
Regime Changes in 1914-1918, p. 365
Raymond L. Cohn, Occupational Evidence on the Causes of Immigration
to the United States, 1836-1853, p. 383
Forrest H. Capie, Terence C. Mills, British Bank Conservatism
in the Late 19th Century, p. 409
Announcement, p. 421
Jeffrey G. Williamson, The Evolution of Global Labor Markets
since 1830: Background Evidence and Hypotheses, p. 141
James L. Butkiewicz, The Impact of a Lender of Last Resort
during the Great Depression: The Case of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, p. 197
John E. Murray, Human Capital in Religious Communes: Literacy
and Selection of Nineteenth Century Shakers, p. 217
Lewis T. Evans, Neil C. Quigley, What Can Univariate Models
Tell Us about Canadian Economic Growth 1870-1985?, p. 236
Kris Inwood, Thanasis Stengos, Rejoinder: Segmented Trend
Models of Canadian Economic Growth, p. 253
David Greasley, Les Oxley, Balanced versus Compromise Estimates
of UK GDP 1870-1913, p. 262
G. N. Von Tunzelmann, Time-saving Technical Change: The
Cotton Industry in the English Industrial Revolution, p. 1
Sophia Lazaretou, Government Spending, Monetary Policies,
and Exchange Rate Regime Switches: The Drachma in the Gold Standard
Period, p. 28
Mahinda Siriwardana, The Causes of the Depression in Australia
in the 1930s: A General Equilibrium Evaluation, p. 51
Shawn Everett Kantor, The Political Economy of Coalition Formation:
The Case of Livestock Enclosure in the Postbellum South, p. 82
Werner Troesken, Antitrust Regulation before the Sherman Act:
The Break-Up of the Chicago Gas Trust Company, p. 109
Announcements, p. 137
Lee J. Alston, Wayne A. Grove, David C. Wheelock, Why Do
Banks Fail? Evidence from the 1920s, p. 409
Ian W. McLean, Saving in Settler Economies: Australian and
North American Comparisons, p. 432
Pierre Sicsic, Establishment Size and Economies of Scale in
19th-Century France, p. 453
Daniel Barbezat, Structural Rigidity and the Severity of the
German Depression: The AVI and the German Steel Cartels 1925-1932, p. 479
Craig Heinicke, African-American Migration and Mechanized
Cotton Harvesting, 1950-1960, p. 501
S. N. Broadberry, Comparative Productivity in British and
American Manufacturing during the Nineteenth Century, p. 521
Announcements, p. 549
ESSAYS IN EXPLORATION
Robert Higgs, The Cold War Economy: Opportunity Costs, Ideology,
and the Polities of Crisis, p. 283
REGULAR ARTICLES
Ann M. Carlos, Bonding and the Agency Problem: Evidence from
the Royal African Company, 1672-1691, p. 313
James R. Irwin, Explaining the Decline in Southern per Capita
Output after Emancipation, p. 336
David C. Wheelock, Subal C. Kumbhakar, “The Slack Banker
Dances”: Deposit Insurance and Risk-Taking in the Banking
Collapse of the 1920s, p. 357
Farley Grubb, Tony Stitt, The Liverpool Emigrant Servant Trade
and the Transition to Slave Labor in the Chesapeake, 1697-1707:
Market Adjustments to War, p. 376
Announcements, p. 406
Alan Dye, Cane Contracting and Renegotiation: A Fixed Effects
Analysis of the Adoption of New Technologies in the Cuban Sugar
Industry, 1899-1929, p. 141
N. F. R. Crafts, Terence C. Mills, Trends in Real Wages in
Britain, 1750-1913, p. 176
Ian Gazeley, Prices in Interwar Britain, p. 195
Richard F. Muth, Real Land Rentals in Early Roman, p. 210
Lance Brennan, John McDonald, Ralph Shlomowitz, Trends in
the Economic Well-Being of South Indians under British Rule:
The Anthropometric Evidence, p. 225
Nancy W. Clegg, Clyde G. Reed, The Economic Decline of the
Church in Medieval England, p. 261
Announcement, p. 281
Peter H. Lindert, The Rise of Social Spending, 1880-1930, p. 1
Timothy W. Guinnane, A Failed Institutional Transplant: Raiffeisen’s
Credit Cooperatives in Ireland, 1894-1914, p. 38
Carl Hampus Lyttkens, A Predatory Democracy? An Essay on Taxation
in Classical Athens, p. 62
Ronald N. Johnson, Gary D. Libecap, Patronage to Merit and
Control of the Federal Government Labor Force, p. 91
Kevin O’Rourke, The Repeal of the Corn Laws and Irish Emigration, p. 120
Announcement, p. 139
William A. Sundstrom, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Occupational
Differences in the Dispersion of Wages and Working Hours: Labor
Market Integration in the United States, 1890-1903, p. 379
Robert A. Margo, The Labor Force Participation of Older Americans
in 1900: Further Results, p. 409
Dora L. Costa, Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age
Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records, p. 424
Robin Pearson, Capital Formation during the Industrial Revolution
Revisited: Insurance Valuations and Some New Sectoral Estimates, p. 450
David A. Latzko, The Concept of “Military Economies of
Scale”, p. 470
Philip M. Holleran, Child Labor and Exploitation in Turn-of-the
Century Cotton Mills, p. 485
Announcement, p. 501
Loren Brandt, Interwar Japanese Agriculture: Revisionist
Views on the Impact of the Colonial Rice Policy and the Labor-Surplus
Hypothesis, p. 259
Richard S. Grossman, The Macroeconomic Consequences of Bank
Failures under the National Banking System, p. 294
Steven Herscovici, The Distribution of Wealth in Nineteenth
Century Boston: Inequality among Natives and Immigrants, 1860, p. 321
Kyle D. Kauffman, Why Was the Mule Used in Southern Agriculture?
Empirical Evidence of Principal-Agent Solutions, p. 336
Richard C. K. Burdekin, Farrokh K. Langdana, War Finance in
the Southern Confederacy, 1861-1865, p. 352
Announcements, p. 377
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Credit Markets and Economic Change
Southeastern France 1630-1788, p. 129
J. S. Dogson, British Railway Cost Functions and Productivity
1900-1912, p. 158
Paul R. Gregory, Manouchehr Mokhtari, State Grain Purchases,
Relative Prices, and the Soviet Grain Procurement Crisis, p. 182
Jan Tore Klovland, Zooming in on Sauerbeck: Monthly Wholesale
Prices in Britain 1845-1890, p. 195
T. J. Hatton, R. E. Bailey, Household Labor Supply and Women’s
Work in Interwar Britain, p. 229
Announcements, p. 257
Ronald Lee, Accidental and Systematic Change in Population
History: Homeostasis in a Stochastic Setting, p. 1
Alan G. Green, David A. Green, Balanced Growth and the Geographical
Distribution of European Immigrant Arrivals to Canada, 1900-1912, p. 31
Lee A. Craig, Elizabeth B. Field-Hendrey, Industrialization
and the Earnings Gap: Regional and Sectoral Tests of the Goldin-Sokoloff
Hypothesis, p. 60
C. A. Mandemakers, J. L. Van Zanden, The Height of Conscripts
and National Income: Apparent Relations and Misconceptions, p. 81
Lawrence H. Officer, Gold-Point Arbitrage and Uncovered Interest
Arbitrage under the 1925-1931 Dollar-Sterling Gold Standard, p. 98
Announcement, p. 128
C. Knick Harley, The Antebellum American Tariff: Food Exports
and Manufacturing, p. 375
Susan B. Carter, Elizabeth Savoca, The “Teaching Procession”?
Another Look at Teacher Tenure, 1845-1925, p. 401
Donald F. Swanson, Andrew P. Trout, Alexander Hamilton, Conversion,
and Debt Reduction, p. 417
William A. Sundstrom, Rigid Wages or Small Equilibrium Adjustments?
Evidence from the Contraction of 1893, p. 430
Timothy W. Guinnane, Intergenerational Transfers, Emigration,
and the Rural Irish Household System, p. 456
Pat McGregor, The Labor Market and the Distribution of Landholdings
in Pre-famine Ireland, p. 477494
Forrest H. Capie, Terence C. Mills, Money and Business
Cycles in the United States, 1870 to 1913: A Reexamination of
Friedman and Schwartz, p. 251
Barry R. Chiswick, Jewish Immigrant Wages in America in 1909:
An Analysis of the Dillingham Commission Data, p. 274
Scott Sumner, The Role of the International Gold Standard
in Commodity Price Deflation: Evidence from the 1929 Stock Market
Crash, p. 290
Raymond L. Cohn, Fiscal Policy in Germany during the Great
Depression, p. 318
Pierre Van Der Eng, The Real Domestic Product of Indonesia,
1880-1989, p. 343
Announcement, p. 374
Riccardo Faini, Gianni Toniolo, Reconsidering Japanese
Deflation during the 1920s, p. 121
Lee A. Craig, Douglas Fisher, Integration of the European
Business Cycle: 1871-1910, p. 144
Theofanis C. Tsoulouhas, A New Look at Demographic and Technological
Changes: Eng!and, 1550 to 1839, p. 169
Sumner J. La Croix, Property Rights and Institutional Change
during Australia’s Gold Rush, p. 204
James A. Dunlevy, Richard P. Saba, The Role of Nationality
Specific Characteristics on the Settlement Patterns of Late Nineteenth
Century Immigrants, p. 228
Announcement, p. 250
ESSAYS IN EXPLORATION
Stanley L. Engerman, Coerced and Free Labor: Property Rights
and the Development of the Labor Force, p. 1
REGULAR ARTICLES
Marc Hayford, Carl A. Pasurka, Jr., The Political Economy
of the Fordney-McCumber and Smoot-Hawiey Tariff Acts, p. 30
Michael B. Percy, Rick Szostak, The Political Economy of the
Abolition of Seigneurial Tenure in Canada East, p. 51
Pierre Sicsic, Was the Franc Poincaré Deliberately
Undervalued?, p. 69
Barry Eichengreen, Comment: More Speculation on Destabilizing
Speculation, p. 93
J. L. Anderson, T. Lewit, A Contract with the Barbarians?
Economics and the Fail of Rome, p. 99
Gerald Gunderson, Rejoinder: The Theory of Rome, p. 116
Announcements, p. 118
Timothy J. Hatton, Jeffrey G. Williamson, Wage Gaps between
Farm and City: Michigan in the 1890s, p. 381
Kevin O’Rourke, Rural Depopulation in a Small Open Economy:
Ireland 1856-1876, p. 409
Nancy E. Bertaux, The Roots of today’s “Women’s Jobs” and “Men’s Jobs”: Using the Index of Dissimilarity
to Measure Occupational Segregation by Gender, p. 433
John Vincent Nye, Changing French Trade Conditions, National
Welfare, and the 1860 Anglo-French Treaty of Commerce, p. 460
REPLY
Robert C. Allen, Labor Productivity and Farm Size in English
Agriculture before Mechanization: Reply to Clark, p. 478
Giovanni Federico, Antonio Tena, On the Accuracy of Foreign
Trade Statistics (1909-1935): Morgenstern Revisited, p. 259
Kris Inwood, Thanasis Stengos, Discontinuities in Canadian
Economic Growth, 1870-1985, p. 274
Michael Beenstock, Peter Warburton, The Market for Labor in
Interwar Britain, p. 287
Jim Gerber, Public School Expenditures in the Plantation States,
1910, p. 309
Susan B. Carter, Elizabeth Savoca, Gender Differences in Learning
and Earning in Nineteenth-Century America: The Role of Expected
Job and Career Attachment, p. 323
Wayne Lewchuk, Industrialization and Occupational Mortality
in France prior to 1914, p. 344
John R. Hanson II, Third World Incomes before World War I:
Further Evidence, p. 367
Announcement, p. 380
ESSAYS IN EXPLORATION
Charles R. Hickson, Earl A. Thompson, A New Theory of Guilds
and European Economic Development, p. 127
REGULAR ARTICLES
James C. Riley, Working Health Time: A Comparison of Preindustrial,
Industrial, and Postindustrial Experience in Life and Health, p. 169
John McDonald, Ralph Shlomowitz, Passenger Fares on Sailing
Vessels to Australia in the Nineteenth Century, p. 192
Trevor J. O. Dick, John E. Floyd, Balance of Payments Adjustment
under the International Gold Standard: Canada, 1871-1913, p. 209
REPLY
Patricia Cloud, David W. Galenson, Chinese Immigration: Reply
to Charles McClain, p. 239
NOTE
Gregory Clark, Labor Productivity and Farm Size in English
Agriculture before Mechanization: A Note, p. 248
ESSAYS IN EXPLORATION
Alexander James Field, Do Legal Systems Matter?, p. 1
REGULAR ARTICLES
Michael L. Boyd, The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions: The
Case of Medieval and Ottoman Serbia, p. 36
Solomos Solomou, Martin Weale, Balanced Estimates of UK GDP
1870-1913, p. 54
Barry R. Chiswick, Jewish Immigrant Skill and Occupational
Attainment at the Turn of the Century, p. 64
Michael Huberman, How Did Labor Markets Work in Lancashire?
More Evidence on Prices and Quantities in Cotton Spinning, 1822-1852, p. 87
NOTE
Douglas A. Irwin, Was Britain Immiserized during the Industrial
Revolution?, p. 121
Announcement, p. 125