Add to ORKGBetween 1800 and 1860, the United States became the preeminent world supplier of cotton as output increased sixty-fold. Technological changes, including the introduction of improved cotton varieties, contributed significantly to this growth. Measured output per worker in the cotton sector rose four-fold and large regional differences emerged. By 1840, output per worker in the New South was twice that in the Old South. The economy-wide increase is explained, in equal measure, by growth in output per worker at fixed locations and by the reallocation of labor across regions. These results offer a new view on the dynamics of economic development in antebellum America.
The United States economy was transformed in the period between American independence and the beginn...
How much of the rapid growth in labor productivity in nineteenth century cotton weaving arose from c...
How much of the rapid growth in labor productivity in nineteenth century cotton weaving arose from c...
This paper reports estimates of labor and total factor productivity, for thirteen manufacturing indu...
From the cotton gin until World War II, the pace of economic expansion in the American South was pri...
During the first half of of the nineteenth century the United States emerged as a major producer of ...
The current view of U.S. economic growth before 1860 is based on the conjectural estimates of output...
Despite the South\u27s defeat in the Civil War and the economic hardships occasioned by the conflict...
This report summarizes a year-long study of the current and future role of technology in the Mid-Sou...
The primary factor determining the rate of economic growth in 18th-century British America was the p...
During the early twentieth century American cotton-producing areas rapidly expanded beyond the Old ...
The primary factor determining the rate of economic growth in 18th-century British America was the p...
Most major American industrial business cycles from around 1880 to the First World War were caused b...
Michael S. Frawley is asking us to do some fresh thinking about the late antebellum economy of the G...
The American Northeast industrialized rapidly from about 1820 to 1850, while the South remained agri...
The United States economy was transformed in the period between American independence and the beginn...
How much of the rapid growth in labor productivity in nineteenth century cotton weaving arose from c...
How much of the rapid growth in labor productivity in nineteenth century cotton weaving arose from c...
This paper reports estimates of labor and total factor productivity, for thirteen manufacturing indu...
From the cotton gin until World War II, the pace of economic expansion in the American South was pri...
During the first half of of the nineteenth century the United States emerged as a major producer of ...
The current view of U.S. economic growth before 1860 is based on the conjectural estimates of output...
Despite the South\u27s defeat in the Civil War and the economic hardships occasioned by the conflict...
This report summarizes a year-long study of the current and future role of technology in the Mid-Sou...
The primary factor determining the rate of economic growth in 18th-century British America was the p...
During the early twentieth century American cotton-producing areas rapidly expanded beyond the Old ...
The primary factor determining the rate of economic growth in 18th-century British America was the p...
Most major American industrial business cycles from around 1880 to the First World War were caused b...
Michael S. Frawley is asking us to do some fresh thinking about the late antebellum economy of the G...
The American Northeast industrialized rapidly from about 1820 to 1850, while the South remained agri...
The United States economy was transformed in the period between American independence and the beginn...
How much of the rapid growth in labor productivity in nineteenth century cotton weaving arose from c...
How much of the rapid growth in labor productivity in nineteenth century cotton weaving arose from c...