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Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South 纪念碑效应:重建后南方的邦联纪念碑
IF 2.3 1区 历史学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101635
Alexander N. Taylor
This paper explores the contemporaneous effects of Confederate monuments dedicated in the Post-Reconstruction South. I combine monument, election, and census data to create an election-year panel dataset of former Confederate counties between 1878–1912, then exploit the temporally staggered and geographically distributed dedication of monuments using a generalized difference-in-differences design. I find that monuments caused increases in Democratic Party vote share and decreases in voter turnout, with less robust decreases in Black population share. I find some evidence that more intense monument-building is associated with a decrease in Black lynchings. I also find varying effects based on the era of monument dedication, the intensity of monument-building, and monument characteristics. To address potential mechanisms, I present evidence that monuments were associated with increased use of famous Confederate names for children and show that decreases in voter turnout occurred exclusively in areas with larger Black population shares. Overall, my results suggest monuments promoted a distorted view of Civil War history that primarily persuaded southern whites, but also contributed to Black political suppression. The findings have implications for current debates over Confederate monuments in the United States.
本文探讨了南方邦联纪念碑在后重建时期的同期效应。我将纪念碑、选举和人口普查数据结合起来,创建了 1878-1912 年间前邦联各县的选举年面板数据集,然后采用广义差分设计,利用纪念碑在时间上的交错和地理上的分布。我发现,纪念碑导致了民主党得票率的上升和投票率的下降,而黑人人口比例的下降则不太明显。我发现一些证据表明,纪念碑建设力度加大与黑人私刑的减少有关。我还发现,根据纪念碑的建造年代、建造纪念碑的强度以及纪念碑的特征,会产生不同的影响。为了解决潜在的机制问题,我提出了纪念碑与更多儿童使用著名的邦联名字有关的证据,并表明投票率的下降只发生在黑人人口比例较大的地区。总体而言,我的研究结果表明,纪念碑促进了对内战历史的歪曲,这种歪曲主要说服了南方白人,但也助长了对黑人的政治压制。这些发现对当前美国关于邦联纪念碑的争论具有启示意义。
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Are some piece rates better than others? Cross-sectional variation in piece rates at a US cotton factory 有些计件工资率比其他计件工资率高吗?美国一家棉纺厂计件工资的横截面变化
IF 2.6 1区 历史学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101631
Joyce Burnette
While piece rates were a common form of payment in manufacturing, historians have rarely tried to understand the cross-sectional structure of piece-rate prices. This paper examines piece rates paid to weavers at a US cotton factory and demonstrates that in most cases expected daily earnings were constant across different piece rates. While some rates did result in higher daily earnings, there is no evidence of gender discrimination in the assignment of such rates.
虽然计件工资是制造业中一种常见的付款方式,但历史学家很少试图了解计件工资价格的横截面结构。本文研究了美国一家棉纺厂支付给纺织工的计件工资,并证明在大多数情况下,不同计件工资的预期日收入是不变的。虽然有些计件价格确实会导致较高的日收入,但没有证据表明在分配计件价格时存在性别歧视。
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Reservoirs of power: The political legacy of dam construction in Franco’s Spain 权力水库:佛朗哥时期西班牙大坝建设的政治遗产
IF 2.6 1区 历史学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101628
Gema Lax-Martinez
This paper delves into infrastructure projects initiated during the dictatorship in Spain, particularly the construction of reservoirs and dams. These projects were instrumental in bolstering support for right-wing factions advocating for Franco’s regime over the years. However, our research reveals a notable trend: areas where dams were erected by the regime demonstrate diminished political backing for right-wing parties in the post-dictatorship era. We present evidence suggesting that this phenomenon is driven by the use of forced labor in dam construction by the regime, as inferred from the proximity to concentration camps. To address endogeneity concerns, we instrument dam construction with river gradient suitability.
本文深入探讨了西班牙独裁统治时期启动的基础设施项目,尤其是水库和大坝的建设。多年来,这些项目在支持佛朗哥政权的右翼派别方面发挥了重要作用。然而,我们的研究发现了一个值得注意的趋势:在独裁统治后的时代,由佛朗哥政权修建水坝的地区对右翼政党的政治支持有所减少。我们提出的证据表明,这一现象是由于政权在大坝建设中使用了强制劳动力,这一点可以从集中营的邻近程度推断出来。为了解决内生性问题,我们用河流坡度适宜性作为大坝建设的工具。
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Wealth and history: A reappraisal 财富与历史:重新评估
IF 2.6 1区 历史学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101624
Daniel Waldenström
The study revisits trends and drivers of wealth inequality and accumulation since the onset of industrialization. Empirical analysis reveals that Western countries are both wealthier and more equal today than a century ago. Wealth concentration has declined in all countries over the past century, remaining at historically low levels in Europe, while rising in the United States. These trends are largely driven by new wealth accumulation among the lower and middle classes, primarily through housing and pension savings, rather than a decline in the fortunes of the affluent. The findings challenge the view that unregulated capitalism inevitably leads to extreme wealth concentration and question the idea that wealth equalization requires shocks to capital, such as wars or progressive taxation. Instead, the evidence emphasizes the equitable effects of economic and political institutions that enable ordinary individuals to build personal wealth.
本研究重新审视了自工业化开始以来财富不平等和财富积累的趋势和驱动因素。实证分析表明,与一个世纪前相比,今天的西方国家更加富裕,也更加平等。在过去的一个世纪中,所有国家的财富集中度都有所下降,欧洲保持在历史最低水平,而美国则有所上升。这些趋势主要是由中下层阶级新的财富积累(主要是通过住房和养老金储蓄)驱动的,而不是富裕阶层财富的减少。研究结果对无管制的资本主义必然导致财富极度集中的观点提出了质疑,并对财富均等化需要战争或累进税等资本冲击的观点提出了质疑。相反,这些证据强调了经济和政治体制的公平效应,使普通人能够积累个人财富。
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The Black–white lifetime earnings gap 黑人与白人终生收入差距
IF 2.6 1区 历史学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101629
Ezra Karger , Anthony Wray
The average white male born in 1900 earned 2.6 times more labor income over their lifetime than the average Black male. This gap is nearly twice as large as the more commonly studied cross-sectional Black–white earnings gap because 48% of Black males born in 1900 died before the age of 30 as compared to just 26% of white males. We calibrate a model of optimal consumption in a world with mortality risk to data describing the life-cycle earnings and survival probabilities of Black and white males born between 1900 and 1970. We find that convergence in Black and white mortality rates led to a 50% reduction in Black–white welfare gaps between the 1900 and 1920 birth cohorts, even as cross-sectional Black–white income gaps for those cohorts remained relatively constant. However, the Black–white welfare gap stagnated for the 1920 to 1970 birth cohorts as gaps in Black–white life expectancy and income remained stable and large.
1900 年出生的白人男性一生的平均劳动收入是黑人男性的 2.6 倍。这一差距几乎是更常研究的横截面黑人-白人收入差距的两倍,因为 1900 年出生的黑人男性中有 48% 在 30 岁前死亡,而白人男性中只有 26% 在 30 岁前死亡。我们根据描述 1900 年至 1970 年间出生的黑人和白人男性生命周期收入和生存概率的数据,校准了一个存在死亡风险的世界中的最优消费模型。我们发现,黑人和白人死亡率的趋同导致 1900 年至 1920 年出生队列中黑人与白人的福利差距缩小了 50%,即使这些队列中黑人与白人的横截面收入差距保持相对稳定。然而,1920 年至 1970 年出生队列中黑人与白人的福利差距停滞不前,因为黑人与白人的预期寿命和收入差距保持稳定且较大。
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Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world: Weak or strong homeostasis? 马尔萨斯世界的趋同速度:弱平衡还是强平衡?
IF 2.6 1区 历史学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101634
Arnaud Deseau
The Malthusian trap is a well recognized source of stagnation in per capita income prior to industrialization. However, previous studies have found mixed evidence about its exact strength. This article contributes to this ongoing debate by estimating the speed of convergence for a panel of 9 preindustrial European economies over a long period of time (14th–18th century). The analysis relies on a calibrated Malthusian model for England and β-convergence regressions. I find evidence of significant differences in the strength of the Malthusian trap between preindustrial European economies. The strongest estimated Malthusian trap is in Sweden, with a half-life of 20 years. The weakest estimated Malthusian trap is in England, with a half-life of about 230 years. This implies that some preindustrial economies were able to experience prolonged variations in their standards of living after a shock, while still being subject to Malthusian stagnation in the long run.
马尔萨斯陷阱是公认的工业化之前人均收入停滞不前的根源。然而,以往的研究对其确切强度的证据褒贬不一。本文通过估算 9 个工业化前欧洲经济体在很长一段时间(14-18 世纪)内的收敛速度,为这一持续的争论做出了贡献。分析依赖于英国的马尔萨斯校准模型和 β 趋同回归。我发现有证据表明,工业化前的欧洲经济体在马尔萨斯陷阱的强度上存在显著差异。瑞典的马尔萨斯陷阱估计强度最大,半衰期为 20 年。估计马尔萨斯陷阱最弱的是英国,半衰期约为 230 年。这意味着,一些前工业化经济体在受到冲击后,其生活水平能够经历长时间的变化,但从长远来看,仍然会出现马尔萨斯式的停滞。
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Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia 劳动胁迫、财政现代化和国家能力:殖民时期印度尼西亚的证据
IF 2.6 1区 历史学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101632
Mark Hup
What explains the emergence of centralized fiscal institutions and information-intensive monetary taxation? This is the first study to estimate the effect of state capacity expansion on labor coercion as taxation, a practice known as corvée labor. To do so, I construct a new database covering eighteen Indonesian residencies over thirty-two years (1874–1905) during the period of Dutch colonial rule. I document the wide use of corvée labor and find that national-level policy centralized state finances by gradually replacing corvée with a head tax. At the same time, a residency-level panel data analysis shows that local state capacity expansion, primarily indigenous officials working as agents for the state, slowed the movement away from corvée. These estimates are supported by an IV strategy that uses effective distance to the capital as an instrument for local state capacity. The relationship between state capacity expansion and fiscal modernization therefore depends on what part of the state is expanding and whether interests across types of taxation differ within the state bureaucracy. Opposing interests of different state actors can be key in understanding fiscal modernization and public labor coercion.
中央集权财政机构和信息密集型货币税收的出现原因何在?这是第一项估算国家能力扩张对作为税收的劳动胁迫(一种被称为 corvée labor 的做法)的影响的研究。为此,我构建了一个新的数据库,涵盖荷兰殖民统治时期 32 年(1874-1905 年)内的 18 个印尼居民点。我记录了徭役的广泛使用,并发现国家层面的政策通过逐步用人头税取代徭役来集中国家财政。同时,居住地层面的面板数据分析显示,地方国家能力的扩张(主要是作为国家代理人的土著官员)减缓了徭役的消失。利用与首都的有效距离作为地方国家能力的工具的 IV 策略支持了这些估计。因此,国家能力扩张与财政现代化之间的关系取决于国家的哪一部分在扩张,以及国家官僚机构内部不同税收类型之间的利益是否存在差异。不同国家行为者的利益对立可能是理解财政现代化和公共劳动胁迫的关键。
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Family first: Defining, constructing, and applying historical patent families 家族第一:定义、构建和应用历史专利族
IF 2.6 1区 历史学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101627
David E. Andersson , Matti La Mela , Fredrik Tell
The article presents a novel method that enables the formation of historical patent families. Patent families are useful for studying the value of inventions and identifying key technologies, as they indicate geographic diffusion and higher patenting costs. The concept of patent family has not been employed in historical contexts as historical sources generally lack information about priority rights. The article provides a definition of a historical patent family, where patent families incorporate patents with the same invention core. The method is applied and evaluated by constructing Swedish patent families in 1885–1914 with historical patent data from Finland and the United States. Moreover, the article introduces the Patent Diffusion Index (PDI), which is an indicator of historical patent families which can be used to study the sequence and pace of market entry. The article exemplifies how historical patent families open novel perspectives on patent value and technology diffusion in contrast to current indicators, such as patent fees, which usually are bound to national contexts. The method is applicable to any national patent data, and patent drawings are suggested as an effective way to form historical patent families.
文章介绍了一种能够形成历史专利族的新方法。专利族对于研究发明价值和识别关键技术非常有用,因为它们表明了专利的地域扩散和较高的专利成本。由于历史资料通常缺乏优先权方面的信息,因此专利族的概念尚未在历史背景下使用。本文给出了历史专利族的定义,即专利族包括具有相同发明核心的专利。通过利用芬兰和美国的历史专利数据构建 1885-1914 年的瑞典专利族,对该方法进行了应用和评估。此外,文章还介绍了专利扩散指数(PDI),这是历史专利族的一个指标,可用于研究市场进入的顺序和速度。文章举例说明了历史专利族如何为专利价值和技术扩散开辟了新的视角,与专利费等通常受国家背景约束的现行指标形成鲜明对比。该方法适用于任何国家的专利数据,并建议将专利图纸作为形成历史专利族的有效方法。
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(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money (实物)中世纪的工资和劳资关系:不是(全部)为了钱
IF 2.6 1区 历史学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101626
Jordan Claridge , Vincent Delabastita , Spike Gibbs
This paper explores the prevalence of in-kind wages in medieval labour markets and the underlying reasons for their use. Using a new dataset of agricultural labourers in medieval England, we demonstrate that, until the late fourteenth century, wages were recorded anonymously and most remuneration was done through in-kind payment. From the 1370s, however, labour remuneration shifted increasingly to cash and workers began to be named individually in the accounts which recorded their wages. We argue that these changes reveal a fundamental shift in labour relations in late medieval England, providing new empirical insights into the ‘golden age of labour’ that followed the Black Death.
本文探讨了中世纪劳动力市场中实物工资的普遍性及其使用的根本原因。利用中世纪英格兰农业劳动者的新数据集,我们证明了直到 14 世纪晚期,工资都是匿名记录的,大多数报酬都是通过实物支付完成的。然而,从 13 世纪 70 年代开始,劳动报酬越来越多地转向现金,工人的姓名也开始出现在记录工资的账目中。我们认为,这些变化揭示了中世纪晚期英格兰劳动关系的根本转变,为黑死病之后的 "劳动黄金时代 "提供了新的实证见解。
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Elite persistence and inequality in the Danish West Indies, 1760–1914 1760-1914 年丹麦西印度群岛的精英持续与不平等现象
IF 2.6 1区 历史学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101636
Stefania Galli , Dimitrios Theodoridis , Klas Rönnbäck
The issue of how elites as a social group form, maintain their position, and influence the society they control is central to the debate on inequality. This paper studies one of the most extremely unequal societies ever recorded — the sugar-based economies in the West Indies — by focusing on the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies and examines the emergence and persistence of its economic elite. The study relies on a novel dataset that covers the entire population of the island over 154 years, allowing for a long-run analysis of elite persistence and the effects of significant economic, institutional, and social changes. Our study shows that elite persistence remained high in global comparison throughout the period of interest, despite several 'critical junctures'. These junctures only had a temporary effect. We contend that this result can be attributed to three mechanisms of persistence: inheritance, institutional co-optation and limited franchise. Finally, we find that although the Crucian elite maintained its relative standing, it came at the cost of severe impoverishment in absolute terms.
精英作为一个社会群体是如何形成、维持其地位并影响其所控制的社会的,这个问题是关于不平等的辩论的核心。本文以丹麦西印度群岛的圣克罗伊岛为中心,研究了有史以来最不平等的社会之一--西印度群岛以蔗糖为基础的经济,并考察了该岛经济精英的出现和持续情况。这项研究依赖于一个新颖的数据集,该数据集涵盖了圣克罗伊岛 154 年来的全部人口,从而可以对精英的持续性以及重大经济、制度和社会变革的影响进行长期分析。我们的研究表明,在整个研究期间,尽管出现了几个 "关键时刻",但与全球相比,精英的持久性仍然很高。这些关键时刻只产生了暂时的影响。我们认为,这一结果可归因于三种持续机制:继承、机构增选和有限的特许权。最后,我们发现,尽管克鲁西亚精英阶层保持了其相对地位,但其代价却是绝对的严重贫困。
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