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37: Were Heckscher and Ohlin Right? Putting the Factor-Price-Equalization Theorem Back into History

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson

36: The Evolution of Global Labor Markets Since 1830 Background Evidence and Hypotheses

Jeffrey Williamson

35: Gresham's Law Regained

Robert L. Greenfield

34: Toward a New Synthesis on the Role of Economic Issues in the Political Realignment of the 1850s

Robert Fogel

33: Whom Did Protective Legislation Protect? Evidence From 1880

Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman

32: Capital Flows to the New World as an Intergenerational Transfer

Alan Taylor and Jeffrey Williamson

31: The Use of Historical Census Data for Mortality and Fertility Research

Michael Haines

30: Agricultural Seasonality and the Organization of Manufacturing During Early Industrialization: The Contrast Between Britain and the United States

Kenneth Sokoloff and David Dollar

29: The Rise of the Chicago Packers and the Origins of Meat Inspection and Antitrust

Gary Libecap

28: The Market for Manufacturing Workers During Early Industrialization: The American Northeast, 1820 to 1860

Kenneth Sokoloff and Georgia C. Villaflor

27: The Labor Force Participation of Older Americans in 1900: Further Results

Robert Margo

26: New Sources and New Techniques for the Study of Secular Trends in Nutritional Status, Health, Mortality, and the Process of Aging

Robert Fogel

25: Louis Brandeis, Work and Fatigue at the Start of the Twentieth Century: Prelude to Oregon's Hours Limitation Law

Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman

24: Stature and Living Standards in the United States

Richard Steckel

23: Long Term Changes in U.S. Agricultural Output per Worker, 1800 to 1900

Thomas Weiss

22: Precedence and Wealth: Evidence from Nineteenth Century Utah

David Galenson and Clayne L. Pope

21: A Home of One's Own: Aging and Homeownership in the United States in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Michael Haines and Allen Goodman

20: Seasonality in Nineteenth Century Labor Markets

Stanley Engerman and Claudia Goldin

19: Wages and Prices During the Antebellum Period: A Survey and New Evidence

Robert Margo

18: The Microeconomics of Depression Unemployment

Robert Margo

17: Segregated Schools and the Mobility Hypothesis: A Model of Local Government Discrimination

Robert Margo

16: The Conquest of High Mortality and Hunger in Europe and America: Timing and Mechanisms

Robert Fogel

15: How Long Was the Workday in 1880?

Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman

14: The Competitive Dynamics of Racial Exclusion: Employment Segregation in the South, 1900-1950

Robert Margo

13: Risk Sharing, Crew Quality, Labor Shares and Wages in the Nineteenth Century American Whaling Industry

Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman and Teresa D. Hutchins

12: Problems in Modeling Complex Dynamic interactions: The Political Realignment of the 1850s

Robert Fogel

11: The Capital Market in the 1850s

Hugh Rockoff

10: The Democratization of Invention During Early Industrialization: Evidence from the United States, 1790-1846

Kenneth Sokoloff and B. Zorina Khan

9: Lessons from the American Experience with Free Banking

Hugh Rockoff

8: Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860

Richard Steckel

7: Economic Growth Before 1860: Revised Conjectures

Thomas Weiss

6: Consumer Behavior and Immigrant Assimilation: A comparison of the United States, Britain and Germany, 1889/1890

Michael Haines

5: Buying the American Dream: Housing Demand in the United States in the Late Nineteenth Century

Michael Haines and Allen Goodman

4: Economic and Geographic Mobility on the Farming Frontier: Evidence from Appanoose County, Iowa 1850-1870

David Galenson and Clayne L. Pope

3: The Trend in the Rate of Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1870-1930: A Review of the Evidence

Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch

2: A State and Local Consumer Price Index for the United States in 1890

Michael Haines

1: Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger: Famines, Price Elasticities, Entitlements, Chronic Malnutrition, and Mortality Rates

Robert Fogel