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The Productivity Consequences of Market Integration: Agriculture in Massachusetts, 1771-1801

In: American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War

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  • Winifred Rothenberg

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  • Winifred Rothenberg, 1992. "The Productivity Consequences of Market Integration: Agriculture in Massachusetts, 1771-1801," NBER Chapters, in: American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War, pages 311-344, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    1. Adams, Donald R., 1986. "Prices and Wages in Maryland, 1750–1850," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 46(3), pages 625-645, September.
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    3. Bateman, Fred, 1969. "Labor Inputs and Productivity in American Dairy Agriculture, 1850–1910," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 29(2), pages 206-229, June.
    4. Field, Alexander James, 1978. "Sectoral shift in antebellum Massachusetts: A reconsideration," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 15(2), pages 146-171, April.
    5. Rothenberg, Winifred B., 1979. "A Price Index for Rural Massachusetts, 1750–1855," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 39(4), pages 975-1001, December.
    6. Ball, D. E. & Walton, G. M., 1976. "Agricultural Productivity Change in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 36(1), pages 102-117, March.
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