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Choices, Rents, and Luck: Economic Mobility of Nineteenth-Century Utah Households

In: Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth

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  • J. R. Kearl & Clayne L. Pope, 1986. "Choices, Rents, and Luck: Economic Mobility of Nineteenth-Century Utah Households," NBER Chapters, in: Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth, pages 215-260, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    1. Robert W. Fogel, 1986. "Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings," NBER Chapters, in: Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth, pages 439-556, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Robert W. Fogel, 1986. "Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700: Some Additional Preliminary Findings," NBER Working Papers 1802, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Lee Soltow, 1992. "Inequalities in the Standard of Living in the United States,1798-1875," NBER Chapters, in: American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War, pages 121-172, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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