The Lighthouse Reform Movement in Antebellum America

Lowell Johnson ()
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Departmental Working Papers from Rutgers University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This study investigates whether economic differences attributable to the length of a state's coastline effected Congressional voting in the 1850s on measures to reform the lighthouse system, a service often thought to be best provided by the government. Probit estimation indicates that geographic differences and party affiliation were influential in initiating an investigation of the lighthouse system.

Keywords: Lighthouses; roll-call regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997-04-08
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