The London money market and non-British bank lending during the first globalisation: evidence from Brazil [0.03%]
第一次全球化期间的伦敦货币市场和非英国外汇贷款：来自巴西的证据
Wilfried Kisling,Marco Molteni
Wilfried Kisling
This study examines the relationship between the London money market (LMM) and the credit provision of non-British overseas banks in peripheral economies during the first wave of globalisation. Using monthly data between 1889 and 1913, we f...
Fraser Summerfield,Livio Di Matteo
Fraser Summerfield
This paper documents the short-run macroeconomic impacts of influenza pandemics across 16 countries spanning 1871-2016 using the Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database and the Human Mortality Database. We find pandemic-induced morta...
Complex networks to understand the past: the case of roads in Bourbon Spain [0.03%]
理解过去的复杂网络：以波旁王朝时期的道路为例
Federico Pablo-Martí,Ángel Alañón-Pardo,Angel Sánchez
Federico Pablo-Martí
The work aims to study, using GIS techniques and network analysis, the development of the road network in Spain during the period between the War of Succession and the introduction of the railway (1700-1850). Our research is based on a deta...
Can pandemics affect educational attainment? Evidence from the polio epidemic of 1916 [0.03%]
大流行病会影响教育程度吗？证据来自1916年的小儿麻痹症疫情
Keith Meyers,Melissa A Thomasson
Keith Meyers
We leverage the largest polio outbreak in US history, the 1916 polio epidemic, to study how epidemic-related school interruptions affect educational attainment. Using polio morbidity as a proxy for epidemic exposure, we find that children a...
Oded Galor
Oded Galor
This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the...