cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.3886/e193925v1
title: Replication: What Happened to the Incomes of the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-level Data, 1909–1950
title: Version 1

description: <div>
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						<span>We use individual-level income data, from archived taxation lists, to
study top-income earners in Sweden from 1909 to 1950. Using
information on 21,055 individual tax-payers in two elite areas in greater
Stockholm, we show that top incomes fell in real terms over this period,
at a stable pace without obvious connection to the Depression or the
World Wars. The peak of inequality was related to the early stages of a
<span>Only<br>
</span>globalized economy with Schumpeterian entrepreneurial profits; the
decline was related to sharpened competition, driving down profits, as
well as increased regulation, expansion of education, and eroded position
of professionals.
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DOI: 10.3886/e193803
title: Railways, Development and Literacy in India
title: Archival Version

description: We study the effect of railroads, the single largest public investment in colonial India, on human capital. Using district-level data on literacy and two different identification strategies, we find railroads had positive effects on literacy, in particular on male and English literacy. We show that railroads increased literacy by raising secondary and elite primary schooling, rather than vernacular primary schooling. Our mediation analysis suggests that non-agricultural income, urbanization, and opportunities for skilled employment are important mechanisms, while agricultural income is not.
DOI: 10.3886/e193803v1
title: Railways, Development and Literacy in India
title: Version 1

description: We study the effect of railroads, the single largest public investment in colonial India, on human capital. Using district-level data on literacy and two different identification strategies, we find railroads had positive effects on literacy, in particular on male and English literacy. We show that railroads increased literacy by raising secondary and elite primary schooling, rather than vernacular primary schooling. Our mediation analysis suggests that non-agricultural income, urbanization, and opportunities for skilled employment are important mechanisms, while agricultural income is not.
DOI: 10.3886/e193269
title: Replication: Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand
title: Archival Version

description: How do external threats on state sovereignty benefit local development? In this paper, we look at Thailand’s railroad projects in the late-19th and early 20th centuries as an example of a state’s strategic response to colonial encroachment. By transporting government officials and establishing a permanent administrative presence, the railways served to ensure Thailand’s sovereignty over peripheral regions and bring them under direct governance. These regions, long considered economically unviable and disconnected from Bangkok, gained rail access due to their strategic importance and in turn witnessed urbanization and increased agricultural production.
DOI: 10.3886/e193269v1
title: Replication: Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand
title: Version 1

description: How do external threats on state sovereignty benefit local development? In this paper, we look at Thailand’s railroad projects in the late-19th and early 20th centuries as an example of a state’s strategic response to colonial encroachment. By transporting government officials and establishing a permanent administrative presence, the railways served to ensure Thailand’s sovereignty over peripheral regions and bring them under direct governance. These regions, long considered economically unviable and disconnected from Bangkok, gained rail access due to their strategic importance and in turn witnessed urbanization and increased agricultural production.
DOI: 10.3886/e192983
title: Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages
title: Archival Version

description: This is the replication package for the empirical results in the paper entitled "Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages" published in the Journal of Economic History.
DOI: 10.3886/e192983v1
title: Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages
title: Version 1

description: This is the replication package for the empirical results in the paper entitled "Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages" published in the Journal of Economic History.
DOI: 10.3886/e192868
title: Data and Code for "Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850-1940"
title: Archival Version

description: This is the replication package for <span>"Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850-1940," by Ariell Zimran, in the Journal of Economic History. </span>
DOI: 10.3886/e192868v1
title: Data and Code for "Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850-1940"
title: Version 1

description: This is the replication package for <span>"Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850-1940," by Ariell Zimran, in the Journal of Economic History. </span>
DOI: 10.3886/e192662
title: Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament
title: Archival Version

description: Replication and data files for Dimitruk (September 2023) "The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament." <i>Journal of Economic History.</i>
DOI: 10.3886/e192662v1
title: Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament
title: Version 1

description: Replication and data files for Dimitruk (September 2023) "The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament." <i>Journal of Economic History.</i>
DOI: 10.3886/e191905
title: Replication files for "State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949"
title: Archival Version

description: This project contains the replication files for <i>State
Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues:</i>

<i>Haiti,
1932–1949.</i><br><br><b>Abstract<br></b>External revenues blunt investments
in fiscal capacity. But how do external revenues affect investments in legal
capacity? In a simple model of state capacity investment, external revenues
should be positively correlated with investments in legal capacity. But this
implication could flip if fiscal capacity lowers the cost of legal capacity
investments. I test the model by looking at Haiti in 1942 when U.S. mobilization
caused a negative shock to external revenues. Contrary to the basic model, the
shock led to an increase in legal capacity. This puzzle is explained by
institutions that tied fiscal and legal capacity investments.<b></b>
DOI: 10.3886/e192264
title: Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation
title: Archival Version

description: This is the replication package for:<br><br>Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation<br><br>Abstract:<br><br>The 1930s American Dust Bowl created archetypal
“Dust Bowl migrants,” refugees from environmental collapse. I examine this
archetype, comparing migration from more-eroded and less-eroded counties to
distinguish Dust Bowl migrants from other migrants. Dust Bowl migrants were
“negatively selected,” in years of education, compared to other migrants who were
“positively selected.” Dust Bowl migrants had lower incomes than natives in
their destinations, which is reflected in popular impressions. I estimate
strikingly modest impacts of the Dust Bowl on average wage incomes in 1939,
however, which contrasts with the Dust Bowl’s large and enduring impacts on
agricultural land.
DOI: 10.3886/e192264v1
title: Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation
title: Version 1

description: This is the replication package for:<br><br>Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation<br><br>Abstract:<br><br>The 1930s American Dust Bowl created archetypal
“Dust Bowl migrants,” refugees from environmental collapse. I examine this
archetype, comparing migration from more-eroded and less-eroded counties to
distinguish Dust Bowl migrants from other migrants. Dust Bowl migrants were
“negatively selected,” in years of education, compared to other migrants who were
“positively selected.” Dust Bowl migrants had lower incomes than natives in
their destinations, which is reflected in popular impressions. I estimate
strikingly modest impacts of the Dust Bowl on average wage incomes in 1939,
however, which contrasts with the Dust Bowl’s large and enduring impacts on
agricultural land.
DOI: 10.3886/e187801
title: The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe
title: Archival Version

description: Sumptuary laws that regulated clothing based on social status were an important part of the political economy of premodern states.  We introduce a model that captures the notion that consumption by ordinary citizens posed a status threat to ruling elites.  Our model predicts a non-monotonic effect of income - sumptuary legislation initially increases with income, but then falls as income increases further.  The initial rise is more likely for states with less extractive institutions, whose ruling elites face greater status threat from the rising commercial class. We test these predictions using a new dataset of country and city-level sumptuary laws.
DOI: 10.3886/e191905v1
title: Replication files for "State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949"
title: Version 1

description: This project contains the replication files for <i>State
Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues:</i>

<i>Haiti,
1932–1949.</i><br><br><b>Abstract<br></b>External revenues blunt investments
in fiscal capacity. But how do external revenues affect investments in legal
capacity? In a simple model of state capacity investment, external revenues
should be positively correlated with investments in legal capacity. But this
implication could flip if fiscal capacity lowers the cost of legal capacity
investments. I test the model by looking at Haiti in 1942 when U.S. mobilization
caused a negative shock to external revenues. Contrary to the basic model, the
shock led to an increase in legal capacity. This puzzle is explained by
institutions that tied fiscal and legal capacity investments.<b></b>
DOI: 10.3886/e187441
title: Collins Holtkamp and Wanamaker Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation
title: Archival Version

description: <span><b>Abstract:</b><span> Large and persistent racial disparities in land-based
wealth were an important legacy of the Reconstruction era.  To assess how
these disparities were transmitted intergenerationally, we build a dataset to
observe Black households’ landholdings in 1880 alongside a sample of White
households. We then link sons from all households to the 1900 census records to
observe their economic and human capital outcomes. We show that Black
landowners (relative to laborers) transmitted substantial intergenerational
advantages to their sons, including an 11 pp advantage in literacy. But such
advantages were small relative to the racial gaps in metrics of economic
status. </span></span><br><br><br><br><br>
DOI: 10.3886/e187801v1
title: The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe
title: Version 1

description: Sumptuary laws that regulated clothing based on social status were an important part of the political economy of premodern states.  We introduce a model that captures the notion that consumption by ordinary citizens posed a status threat to ruling elites.  Our model predicts a non-monotonic effect of income - sumptuary legislation initially increases with income, but then falls as income increases further.  The initial rise is more likely for states with less extractive institutions, whose ruling elites face greater status threat from the rising commercial class. We test these predictions using a new dataset of country and city-level sumptuary laws.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.g36f5f
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 1019 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "TaxonKey is Melanomys caliginosus",
 "Country is Colombia",
 "HasCoordinate is true"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 1019 records from 60 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0007496-260221153910048/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.3886/e187426
title: Guinnane McEvedy and Jones JEH 2023
title: Archival Version

description: Replication package for Guinnane JEH 2023. "We do not know the population of every country in the world for the past two thousand years."
DOI: 10.3886/e187441v3
title: Collins Holtkamp and Wanamaker Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation
title: Version 3

description: <span><b>Abstract:</b><span> Large and persistent racial disparities in land-based
wealth were an important legacy of the Reconstruction era.  To assess how
these disparities were transmitted intergenerationally, we build a dataset to
observe Black households’ landholdings in 1880 alongside a sample of White
households. We then link sons from all households to the 1900 census records to
observe their economic and human capital outcomes. We show that Black
landowners (relative to laborers) transmitted substantial intergenerational
advantages to their sons, including an 11 pp advantage in literacy. But such
advantages were small relative to the racial gaps in metrics of economic
status. </span></span><br><br><br><br><br>
DOI: 10.3886/e186621
title: Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas
title: Archival Version

description: This is the replication package for "Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas" (Sandra García-Uribe, Hannes Mueller, and Carlos Sanz), Journal of Economic History, 2023.<br><br><div>This article exploits two newspaper archives to track economic policy uncertainty in Spain in 1905-1945. We find that the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 was anticipated by a striking upward level shift of uncertainty in both newspapers. We study the reasons for this shift through a natural language processing method which allows us to leverage expert opinion to track specific issues in our newspaper archives. We find a strong empirical link between increasing uncertainty and the rise of divisive political issues like socio-economic conflict. This holds even when exploiting content differences between the two newspapers in our corpus.<br><br>Please, use the Readme.txt file with the full description of the replication package.</div>
DOI: 10.3886/e186621v1
title: Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas
title: Version 1

description: This is the replication package for "Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas" (Sandra García-Uribe, Hannes Mueller, and Carlos Sanz), Journal of Economic History, 2023.<br><br><div>This article exploits two newspaper archives to track economic policy uncertainty in Spain in 1905-1945. We find that the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 was anticipated by a striking upward level shift of uncertainty in both newspapers. We study the reasons for this shift through a natural language processing method which allows us to leverage expert opinion to track specific issues in our newspaper archives. We find a strong empirical link between increasing uncertainty and the rise of divisive political issues like socio-economic conflict. This holds even when exploiting content differences between the two newspapers in our corpus.<br><br>Please, use the Readme.txt file with the full description of the replication package.</div>
DOI: 10.3886/e187426v1
title: Guinnane McEvedy and Jones JEH 2023
title: Version 1

description: Replication package for Guinnane JEH 2023. "We do not know the population of every country in the world for the past two thousand years."
DOI: 10.3886/e184904
title: The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England
title: Archival Version

description: This is the replication package for "The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England", published in the Journal of Economic History.
DOI: 10.3886/e184904v1
title: The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England
title: Version 1

description: This is the replication package for "The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England", published in the Journal of Economic History.
DOI: 10.3886/e183722
title: The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s
title: Archival Version

description: This is the replication package for "The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s"
DOI: 10.3886/e183722v1
title: The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s
title: Version 1

description: This is the replication package for "The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s"
DOI: 10.3886/e183503
title: Institutions, trade and growth: the ancient Greek case of proxenia
title: Archival Version

description: This is the replication package for Creanza (2023). It contains data and code to reproduce all regression tables in the paper. Data and shapefiles to manually reproduce maps in QGIS are also included.
DOI: 10.3886/e183609
title: Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria
title: Archival Version

description: This is the replication package for <i>Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria</i> by Florian Ploeckl<br><br><div>Abstract: Does market access affect information technology by shaping its diffusion and adoption? The introduction of the telephone in Bavaria is used to demonstrate that local and external market access affected both. External connections shortened the diffusion time of exchanges by 3 percent on average, while 4 percent of lines were due to such inter-city communication links. However, relatively stronger local effects from population size and demand for communication services, especially in larger cities, imply that initially, the telephone was primarily a local urban amenity that also became an external communication link when it rolled out to more rural places over time</div>
DOI: 10.3886/e183609v1
title: Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria
title: Version 1

description: This is the replication package for <i>Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria</i> by Florian Ploeckl<br><br><div>Abstract: Does market access affect information technology by shaping its diffusion and adoption? The introduction of the telephone in Bavaria is used to demonstrate that local and external market access affected both. External connections shortened the diffusion time of exchanges by 3 percent on average, while 4 percent of lines were due to such inter-city communication links. However, relatively stronger local effects from population size and demand for communication services, especially in larger cities, imply that initially, the telephone was primarily a local urban amenity that also became an external communication link when it rolled out to more rural places over time</div>
DOI: 10.3886/e183503v1
title: Institutions, trade and growth: the ancient Greek case of 'proxenia'
title: Version 1

description: This is the replication package for Creanza (2023). It contains data and code to reproduce all regression tables in the paper. Data and shapefiles to manually reproduce maps in QGIS are also included.
DOI: 10.3886/e183503v2
title: Institutions, trade and growth: the ancient Greek case of proxenia
title: Version 2

description: This is the replication package for Creanza (2023). It contains data and code to reproduce all regression tables in the paper. Data and shapefiles to manually reproduce maps in QGIS are also included.
DOI: 10.3886/e183101
title: Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital
title: Archival Version

description: This is the replication package for Xiong and Zhao (2023). It contains data and code to produce all tables and figures in the paper.
DOI: 10.3886/e183101v1
title: Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital
title: Version 1

description: This is the replication package for Xiong and Zhao (2023). It contains data and code to produce all tables and figures in the paper.
DOI: 10.3886/e183001
title: Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the 18th Century
title: Archival Version

description: This is the replication package for the article Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the 18th Century. In the second half of the 18th century, Dutch bankers channeled investors’ funds to sugar and coffee plantations in the Caribbean, Surinam in particular. Agency problems between plantation owners, bankers, and investors led to an arrangement called negotiaties. Bankers oversaw plantations’ cash-flows and placed mortgage-debt with investors. We demonstrate how this securitization arrangement worked using market-wide data and detailed records from banker F.W. Hudig. During the boom, debt contracts and their securitization were an effective solution for planters, bankers, and investors. However, the market crashed after an oversupply of credit. This led to inefficient restructuring due to debt overhang.
DOI: 10.3886/e183001v2
title: Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the 18th Century
title: Version 2

description: This is the replication package for the article Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the 18th Century. In the second half of the 18th century, Dutch bankers channeled investors’ funds to sugar and coffee plantations in the Caribbean, Surinam in particular. Agency problems between plantation owners, bankers, and investors led to an arrangement called negotiaties. Bankers oversaw plantations’ cash-flows and placed mortgage-debt with investors. We demonstrate how this securitization arrangement worked using market-wide data and detailed records from banker F.W. Hudig. During the boom, debt contracts and their securitization were an effective solution for planters, bankers, and investors. However, the market crashed after an oversupply of credit. This led to inefficient restructuring due to debt overhang.
DOI: 10.3886/e182996
title: Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain
title: Archival Version

description: This is a replication package for Aldous, Fliers and Turner (2023).<br><br>Alfred Marshall argued that the
malaise of public companies in Edwardian Britain was due to the separation of
ownership from control and a lack of professional management. In this paper, we
examine the ownership and control of the c.1,700 largest British companies in
1911. We find that most public companies had a separation of ownership and
control, but that this had little effect on their performance. We also find
that manager characteristics that proxy for amateurism are uncorrelated with
performance. Ultimately, our evidence suggests that, if Marshall was correct in
identifying a corporate malaise in Britain, its source lay elsewhere.