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Robustness Report on "Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain", by Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman (2013)

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  • Campbell, Douglas
  • Brodeur, Abel
  • Johannesson, Magnus
  • Kopecky, Joseph
  • Lusher, Lester
  • Tsoy, Nikita

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Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) find that labor demand shocks in 19th-century Britain had an impact on master and servant prosecutions, as breaking an employee contract was a criminal offense until 1875. We first reproduce all regression tables in Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) and then test for robustness by using a triple difference where we compare the impact of labor demand shocks on master and servant prosecutions relative to other prosecutions, changing the functional form of key variables, including region*year interactive fixed effects, and conducting influential analysis. We find that the results are sensitive to the triple difference specification and to region*year FEs, and otherwise robust. Overall, we find the results are robust in 50% of the checks we ran, and the t/z scores were on average 74% as large as the original study.

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  • Campbell, Douglas & Brodeur, Abel & Johannesson, Magnus & Kopecky, Joseph & Lusher, Lester & Tsoy, Nikita, 2024. "Robustness Report on "Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain", by Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman (2013)," I4R Discussion Paper Series 130, The Institute for Replication (I4R).
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:i4rdps:130
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    Keywords

    Labor Law; Contract Law; Labor Contracts; Labor Market Institutions; Economic History;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
    • K12 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Contract Law
    • K31 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Labor Law
    • N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • N43 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - Europe: Pre-1913

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