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The Lighthouse Reform Movement in Antebellum America

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Lowell Johnson () (Rutgers)
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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.

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Paper provided by Rutgers University, Department of Economics in its series Departmental Working Papers with number 199703.

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Date of creation: 08 Apr 1997
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Keywords: Lighthouses; roll-call regression;

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  8. Demsetz, Harold, 1970. "The Private Production of Public Goods," Journal of Law & Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 13(2), pages 293-306, October.
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