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Economic Literature (JEL) codes
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N: Economic History
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N9: Regional and Urban History
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N91: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
This topic is covered by the following reading lists:- Historical Economic Geography
Most recent items first, undated at the end.
2017 Migrants and the Making of America: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Immigration during the Age of Mass Migration
by Sandra Sequeira & Nathan Nunn & Nancy Qian
2017 Creative Destruction: Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
by Richard Hornbeck & Daniel Keniston
2017 Segregation and Homeownership in the Early Twentieth Century
by Trevon D. Logan & John M. Parman
2016 Infrastructure, incentives and institutions
by Nava Ashraf & Edward L. Glaeser & Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto
2016 ?His great object is to be continued in Command in this Province?: The Quartering Dispute of 1757-58
by Hyun Wu Lee
2016 Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life
by Dora L. Costa & Matthew E. Kahn & Christopher Roudiez & Sven Wilson
2016 The Impact of the Civil War on Southern Wealth Holders
by Brandon Dupont & Joshua Rosenbloom
2016 Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions
by Nava Ashraf & Edward L. Glaeser & Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
2016 Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions
by Nava Ashraf & Edward L. Glaeser & Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
2016 Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions
by Nava Ashraf & Edward L. Glaeser & Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
2016 Infrastructure, Incentives, and Institutions
by Nava Ashraf & Edward L. Glaeser & Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto
2015 Agglomeration Economies and Productivity Growth: U.S. Cities, 1880-1930
by Alexander Klein & Nicholas Crafts
2015 The National Rise in Residential Segregation
by Trevon Logan & John Parman
2015 Agglomeration Economies and Productivity Growth: U.S. Cities, 1880-1930
by Crafts, Nicholas & Klein, Alexander
2015 Modular Approach to Designing Computer Cultural Systems: Culture as a Thermodynamic Machine
by Leland Gilsen
2015 Razing San Francisco: The 1906 disaster as a natural experiment in urban redevelopment
by Siodla, James
2015 Declining Mortality Inequality within Cities during the Health Transition
by Dora L. Costa & Matthew E. Kahn
2015 The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African Americans: Evidence from the Deep South
by Dan A. Black & Seth G. Sanders & Evan J. Taylor & Lowell J. Taylor
2014 The Dynamics of Subcenter Formation: Midtown Manhattan, 1861-1906
by Jason Barr & Troy Tassier
2014 Of railroads and finance: The making of market society in the Pacific Northwest
by Green, Mitchell R.
2014 Fertility and Financial Development: Evidence from U.S. Counties in the 19th Century
by Alberto Basso & Howard Bodenhorn & David Cuberes
2014 Creative Destruction: Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
by Richard Hornbeck & Daniel Keniston
2014 American Banking and the Transportation Revolution Before the Civil War
by Jeremy Atack & Matthew S. Jaremski & Peter L. Rousseau
2014 The Political Legacy of American Slavery
by Acharya, Avidit & Blackwell, Matthew & Sen, Maya
2014 Economic growth in the Mid-Atlantic region: Conjectural estimates for 1720 to 1800
by Rosenbloom, Joshua L. & Weiss, Thomas
2013 European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US
by Andrés RodrÃguez-Pose & Viola von Berlepsch
2013 Was the African American great migration delayed by outlawing emigrant agents?
by Kha Yen Prentice & László Kónya & David Prentice
2013 Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000
by Leah Platt Boustan & Devin Bunten & Owen Hearey
2013 Regional resilience
by Jeffrey Lin
2013 European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US
by Andrés Rodríguez-Pose & Viola von Berlepsch
2013 European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US
by Rodriguez-Pose, Andres & von Berlepsch, Viola
2013 The Settlement of the United States, 1800 to 2000: The Long Transition towards Gibrat's Law
by Desmet, Klaus & Rappaport, Jordan
2013 Was the African American great migration delayed by outlawing emigrant agents?
by Kha Yen Prentice & Laszlo Konya & David Prentice
2013 Women, wealth and economic change: An assessment of the impact of women's property law in Wentworth County, Ontario, 1872–1927
by Di Matteo, Livio
2012 December Protests in Moscow through the Lenses of Historical Analogies
by A. Yakovlev.
2012 The Role of Mechanical Refrigeration in Spatial and Temporal Price Dynamics for Regional U.S. Egg Markets, 1880–1911
by Craig, Lee & Holt, Matthew T.
2012 American Incomes 1774-1860
by Peter H. Lindert & Jeffrey G. Williamson
2012 Migration to U.S. frontier cities and job opportunity, 1860–1880
by Stewart, James I.
2011 Economic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region: Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to 1800
by Joshua L. Rosenbloom & Thomas J. Weiss
2011 American Incomes before and after the Revolution
by Peter H. Lindert & Jeffrey G. Williamson
2011 The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks: The Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on Urban Poverty and Inequality
by Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
2009 The impact of military forts on agricultural investments on the Great Plains in 1880
by Decker, Christopher & Flynn, David
2009 Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860
by Jeremy Atack & Robert A. Margo
2009 Inputs and institutions as conservative elements
by Art Carden
2007 The private initiative in Zulia state: Engine of the national sugar business (1910-1936)
by Marisol Rodríguez Arrieta & Nilda Bermúdez Briñez
2006 Determinants of Slave Prices: Louisiana, 1725 to 1820
by Ashley N. Coleman & William K. Hutchinson
2004 Water, Race, and Disease
by Werner Troesken
2004 The Impact of the Civil War on Capital Intensity and Labor Productivity in Southern Manufacturing
by William Hutchinson & Robert A. Margo
2003 America’s Toll Roads Heritage: The Achievements of Private Initiative in the 19th Century
by Klein, Daniel & Majewski, John
