The paper investigates gender differences in entrepreneurship by exploiting a large-scale land lottery in Oklahoma at the turn of the 20$^{text{th}}$ century. Lottery winners claimed land in the order in which their names were drawn, so the draw number is an approximate rank ordering of lottery wealth. This mechanism allows for the estimation of a dose-response function, which relates each draw number to the expected outcome under each draw. I estimate dose-response functions on a linked dataset of lottery winners and land patent records, and find the probability of purchasing land from the government to be decreasing as a function of lottery wealth, which is evidence for the presence of liquidity constraints. I find female winners were more effective in leveraging lottery wealth to purchase additional land, as evidenced by significantly higher median dose-responses compared to those of male winners. For a sample of winners linked to the 1910 Census, I find that male winners have higher median dose-responses compared to female winners in terms of farm or home ownership. These results suggest that liquidity constraints may have been more binding for female entrepreneurs in the market economy.
{"title":"Gender Gaps in Frontier Entrepreneurship? Evidence from 1901 Oklahoma Land Lottery Winners","authors":"Jason Poulos","doi":"10.1561/115.00000042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1561/115.00000042","url":null,"abstract":"The paper investigates gender differences in entrepreneurship by exploiting a large-scale land lottery in Oklahoma at the turn of the 20$^{text{th}}$ century. Lottery winners claimed land in the order in which their names were drawn, so the draw number is an approximate rank ordering of lottery wealth. This mechanism allows for the estimation of a dose-response function, which relates each draw number to the expected outcome under each draw. I estimate dose-response functions on a linked dataset of lottery winners and land patent records, and find the probability of purchasing land from the government to be decreasing as a function of lottery wealth, which is evidence for the presence of liquidity constraints. I find female winners were more effective in leveraging lottery wealth to purchase additional land, as evidenced by significantly higher median dose-responses compared to those of male winners. For a sample of winners linked to the 1910 Census, I find that male winners have higher median dose-responses compared to female winners in terms of farm or home ownership. These results suggest that liquidity constraints may have been more binding for female entrepreneurs in the market economy.","PeriodicalId":116801,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Political Economy","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133838628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A large literature investigates the institutional legacies of European colonialism around the world. However, in linking contemporary outcomes to colonial antecedents, most works seldom identify specific institutions or their temporal evolution. This paper examines the institutional legacies of colonialism in Africa through the lens of colonial legislatures. Cross-country analyses show that the correlation between colonial antecedents and contemporary measures of legislative strength is tenuous and sensitive to measurement. A comparative study of legislative development in Ghana and Kenya explains the mixed legacies of colonial legislatures. Beyond colonial institutional design, temporal variation in intra-legislative factional politics explains legislative development in the two countries. This article highlights the importance of understanding the specific mechanisms behind colonial institutional persistence and change.
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Institutional Foundations of the American Revolution: Legislative Politics in Colonial North America
美国革命的制度基础:北美殖民地的立法政治
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The Royal Consultants: The Intendants of France and the Bureaucratic Transition in Pre-modern Europe
皇家顾问:法国总督和前现代欧洲的官僚转型
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Looking for Leadership in Historical Context: An Extension of the RIFLE Method of Randomization Inference
在历史背景下寻找领导力:随机化推理的RIFLE方法的扩展
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Polarization Lost: Exploring the Decline of Ideological Voting in Congress after the Gilded Age
两极分化消失:探索镀金时代后国会意识形态投票的衰落
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This paper investigates the impact of Reconstruction-era amnesty policy on the officeholding and wealth of elites in the postbellum South. Amnesty policy restricted the political and economic rights of Southern elites for nearly three years during Reconstruction. I estimate the effect of being excluded from amnesty on elites’ future wealth and political power using a regression discontinuity design that compares individuals just above and below a wealth threshold that determined exclusion from amnesty. Results on a sample of Reconstruction convention delegates show that exclusion from amnesty significantly decreased the likelihood of ex-post officeholding. I find no evidence that exclusion impacted later census wealth for Reconstruction delegates or for a larger sample of known slaveholders who lived in the South in 1860. These findings are in line with previous studies evidencing both changes to the identity of the political elite, and the continuity of economic mobility among the planter elite across the Civil War and Reconstruction. †Address for correspondence: 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail: poulos@hcp.med.harvard.edu. Acknowledgements: I thank Cyrus Corman-Gill, Amita Chauhan, Desiree Moshayedi, and JaVonte Morris-Wilson for help with transcribing census data. The paper benefited from constructive comments by David Bateman and participants of the “Slavery & Its Legacies Symposium” hosted by the USC Bedrosian Center. This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant DGE-1106400 and the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-1638521 to the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute. Data and code are available at https://github.com/jvpoulos/amnesty. ar X iv :2 10 3. 14 22 0v 2 [ ec on .G N ] 1 J un 2 02 1
本文研究了战后重建时期的特赦政策对南方精英阶层的任职和财富的影响。大赦政策在重建期间将近三年的时间里限制了南方精英的政治和经济权利。我使用回归不连续设计来估计被排除在大赦之外对精英未来财富和政治权力的影响，该设计比较了刚好高于和低于决定被排除在大赦之外的财富阈值的个人。重建大会代表样本的结果表明，被排除在特赦之外显著降低了前邮局任职的可能性。我没有发现任何证据表明，对重建代表或1860年生活在南方的已知奴隶主的更大样本来说，排斥影响了后来的人口普查财富。这些发现与先前的研究一致，证明了政治精英身份的变化，以及内战和重建期间种植园主精英之间经济流动性的连续性。†通信地址:180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115。电子邮件:poulos@hcp.med.harvard.edu。致谢:我感谢Cyrus Corman-Gill、Amita Chauhan、Desiree Moshayedi和JaVonte Morris-Wilson在转录人口普查数据方面的帮助。这篇论文得益于David Bateman和南加州大学Bedrosian中心举办的“奴隶制及其遗产研讨会”的参与者的建设性意见。本研究得到了美国国家科学基金研究生研究基金(DGE-1106400)和美国国家科学基金(DMS-1638521)对统计与应用数学科学研究所的部分支持。数据和代码可在https://github.com/jvpoulos/amnesty上获得。ar X iv:2 10 3。[J] [J] [J] [J] [J] [J]
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1080/05679326808448110
Mark Koyama, Ahmed S. Rahman, Tuan-Hwee Sng
The Danish Navy’s need to upgrade the vessels in its elite Absalon-class support fleet offered a great opportunity for automation.
丹麦海军需要在其精英absalon级支援舰队中升级船只，这为自动化提供了一个很好的机会。
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{"title":"An Imperial Accident: Property Rights in the Philippines under U.S. Rule, 1902–1939","authors":"Leticia Arroyo Abad, Noel Maurer","doi":"10.1561/115.00000029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1561/115.00000029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":116801,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Political Economy","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127117853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Predicament of Establishing Persistence: Slavery and Human Capital in Africa","authors":"A. Malik, Vanessa Bouaroudj","doi":"10.1561/115.00000015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1561/115.00000015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":116801,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Political Economy","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127335695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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