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137: Short-Term Loans and Long-Term Relationships: Relationship Lending in Early America

Howard Bodenhorn

136: The Property Tax as a Coordinating Device: Financing Indiana's Mammoth Internal Improvement System, 1835 to 1842

John Joseph Wallis

135: The Poor and the Dead: Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the U.S., 1850-1860

Joseph P. Ferrie

134: The Urban Mortality Transition in the United States, 1800-1940

Michael Haines

133: What Caused the Crisis of 1839?

John Joseph Wallis

132: A Wolfram in Sheep's Clothing: U.S. Economic Warfare in Spain, 1940-1944

Leonardo Caruana and Hugh Rockoff

131: Social Reformers and Regulation: The Prohibition of Cigarettes in the U.S. and Canada

Lee Alston, Ruth Dupre and Tomas Nonnenmacher

130: Development, Health, Nutrition, and Mortality: The Case of the 'Antebellum Puzzle' in the United States

Michael Haines, Lee Craig and Thomas Weiss

129: One Kind of Freedom: Reconsidered (and Turbo Charged)

Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch

128: The Political Economy of Race, 1940-1964: The Adoption of State-Level Fair Employment Legislation

William Collins

127: "Rain Follows the Plow" and Dryfarming Doctrine: The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925

Gary Libecap and Zeynep Kocabiyik Hansen

126: Conjectural Estimates of Economic Growth in the Lower South, 1720 to 1800

Peter C. Mancall, Joshua Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss

125: Aggregate Price Shocks and Financial Instability: An Historical Analysis

Michael Bordo, Michael Dueker and David Wheelock

124: How Long Did It Take the United States to Become an Optimal Currency Area?

Hugh Rockoff

123: South Carolina Slave Prices, 1722-1809

Peter C. Mancall, Joshua Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss

122: Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses

Richard Steckel and Carolyn Moehling

121: Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living: Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States

Michael Haines and Richard Steckel

120: Slave Prices in the Lower South, 1722-1815

Peter C. Mancall, Joshua Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss

119: A Brief History of Education in the United States

Claudia Goldin

118: Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective

Richard Steckel

117: Share Liquidity and Industrial Growth in an Emerging Market: The Case of New England, 1854-1897

Peter Rousseau

116: Capital Goods Prices, Global Capital Markets and Accumulation, 1870-1950

William Collins and Jeffrey Williamson

115: The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies

Jeffrey Williamson

114: The Industrialization of New England, 1830 - 1880

Peter Temin

113: The Challenges of Economic Maturity: New England, 1880 - 1940

Joshua Rosenbloom

112: The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century

Joseph M. Prince and Richard Steckel

111: Intra-Ethnic Diversity in Hispanic Child Mortality, 1890-1910

Myron P. Gutmann, Michael Haines, W. Parker Frisbie and K. Stephen Blanchard

110: The Stability of the American Business Elite

Peter Temin

109: Labor Market Integration Before the Civil War

Robert Margo

108: Height, Weight, and Body Mass of the British Population Since 1820

Roderick Floud

107: Health, Height, Nutrition, and Mortality: Evidence on the "Antebellum Puzzle" from Union Army Recruits in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Michael Haines

106: Historical Perspectives on the Economic Consequences of Immigration into the United States

Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch

105: Operations of "Unfettered" Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century

Price Fishback

104: The American Business Elite in Historical Perspective

Peter Temin

103: Business Activity and the Boston Stock Market, 1835-1869

Jeremy Atack and Peter Rousseau

102: Sears Roebuck in the Twentieth Century: Competition, Complementarities, and the Problem of Wasting Assets

Daniel Raff and Peter Temin

101: Wages in California During the Gold Rush

Robert Margo

100: Manufacturing Where Agriculture Predominates: Evidence from the South and Midwest in 1860

Kenneth Sokoloff and Viken Tchakerian

99: Nutritional Status and Agricultural Surpluses in the Antebellum United States

Lee Craig and Thomas Weiss

98: Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth Sokoloff

97: Debt, Default, and Revenue Structure: The American State Debt Crisis in the Early 1840s

Arthur Grinath, John Joseph Wallis and Richard Sylla

96: Latifundia as Malefactor in Economic Development? Scale, Tenancy, and Agriculture on the Pampas, 1880-1914

Alan Taylor

95: The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910-1930

Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

94: The Efficiency Consequences of Institutional Change: Financial Market Regulation and Industrial Productivity Growth in Brazil, 1866-1934

Stephen Haber

93: Immigrants and Natives: Comparative Economic Performance in the U.S., 1850-60 and 1965-80

Joseph P. Ferrie

92: Explaining the Rise in Antebellum Pauperism: New Evidence

Lynne Kiesling and Robert Margo

91: "Location, Location, Location!" The Market for Vacant Urban Land: New York 1835-1900

Jeremy Atack and Robert Margo

90: What Determines the Allocation of National Government Grants to the States?

John Joseph Wallis

89: Compulsory Schooling Legislation and School Attendance in Turn-of-the-Century America: A "Natural Experiment" Approach

Robert Margo and T. Aldrich Finegan

88: The Entry Into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840-60

Joseph P. Ferrie