http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0363-3268.htm Table of contents from the most recently published volume of Research in Economic History Book series en-gb Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 2013 Emerald Group Publishing Limited editorial@emeraldinsight.com support@emeraldinsight.com 60 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/common_assets/img/covers_book/0363-3268.gif http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0363-3268.htm 120 157 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0363-3268&volume=29&chapterid=17076726&show=abstract http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/S0363-3268(2013)0000029004 The Epidemiologic Transition can help us understand a fundamental puzzle about aging. The puzzle stems from two seemingly contradictory facts. The first fact is that death rates from noninfectious degenerative maladies – the so-called diseases of aging – increase as people age. It seems to be at odds with the historical fact that for nearly a century in which people were aging more than ever before, the aggregate rates of such diseases have been decreasing. In what sense can both be true? Crucial to resolving the puzzle are the age-profiles of such diseases in cohorts that grew up in the different regimes of the Transition. For each cohort, noninfectious diseases had increased with age, resulting in an upward-sloping age profile, which affirms the first fact. As the regimes were transitioning from the Malthusian to the modern one, however, the profiles of successive cohorts had been shifting downward: death rates from noninfectious diseases were shrinking at each age, signifying the newer cohorts’ greater aging potentials. The shifting profiles had been renewing the cohort mix of the population, shaping the century-long descent of such diseases in aggregate, giving rise to the historical fact. The profiles had shifted early in the cohorts’ adult years, associating closely with the newer epidemiologic conditions in childhood. Those conditions appear to be a circumstance under which aging potentials of cohorts could be misgauged, including in one troubling episode in the first half of the nineteenth century when the potentials had reversed. Chapter literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Suchit Arora) Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0363-3268&volume=29&chapterid=17076727&show=abstract http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/S0363-3268(2013)0000029005 In this chapter, I estimate French regional gross value added per capita in constant terms between 1872 and 1911, to better understand regional inequalities within the country and to allow comparison with other European regions. To this end, I develop a novel regional income estimation model, where income is specified as a function of shifts in sectoral employment structure. Its conceptual basis is uncontroversial, its data requirements are low, and it withstands robustness checks. Chapter literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Paul Caruana-Galizia) Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0363-3268&volume=29&chapterid=17076728&show=abstract http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/S0363-3268(2013)0000029006 In formulating his theory of land rent, Ricardo did not take into account the fact that in the Europe of his time relationships between landlords and tenants were often regulated by customs that kept rents below marginal product, sometimes even in the long term. Since all those customs had a number of points in common, understanding the logic governing one of them can be a very useful way to gain an overall understanding of the phenomenon. This chapter analyses a case of such customs in the area of market-gardens surrounding the city of Valencia, eastern Spain. Here, tenants were by custom the owners of the improvements they carried out, agricultural efficiency increased, and land rents stagnated. The chapter addresses issues such as cooperation among large groups of people, definition of rights and the creation of property rights by means of social conventions that clashed with law. Chapter literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Samuel Garrido) Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0363-3268&volume=29&chapterid=17076729&show=abstract http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/S0363-3268(2013)0000029007 We provide the first comprehensive documentation of enactment by U.S. states of two types of Acts removing married women's legal impediments in the economic sphere: the Married Women's Property Acts (MWPAs) and the Earnings Acts (EAs). We identify MWPAs that granted married women the right to own and control real and personal property, and Earnings Acts that granted married women the right to own and control their market earnings. Such Acts were passed by most states between 1850 and 1920, and were critical in weakening the patriarchal common-law doctrine of coverture. Scholars studying the Acts’ causes and consequences have used different enactment dates. We describe a three-step method for determining accurate dates of passage, apply that method to the contiguous 48 states, uncover dates not listed in previous studies, and show how our dates differ from the present published lists. We also show how enactment varied across regions, and across states with different marital property regimes. We relate Act timing to social changes occurring at those times, such as women's suffrage group organizing and the passage of compulsory schooling laws. We hope that our investigation will inform future empirical study of these important legal changes. Chapter literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (R. Richard Geddes, Sharon Tennyson) Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0363-3268&volume=29&chapterid=17076730&show=abstract http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/S0363-3268(2013)0000029008 This paper presents estimates of total personal income for every U.S state in 1880, 1890, 1900, and 1910. The series includes new figures for 1890 and 1910, and revisions of Richard Easterlin's (1960) figures for 1880 and 1900 based on recent economic history research. The new estimates allow better examination of U.S. interregional income differences and cyclical behavior of U.S. states’ total personal income. Chapter literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Alexander Klein) Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0363-3268&volume=29&chapterid=17076731&show=abstract http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/S0363-3268(2013)0000029009 Exports are both an important component of overall economic performance and an indicator of broader trends in economic growth for the early American economy. In this article we describe a new set of estimates of the volume of overseas exports originating in the colonies and states of the Middle Atlantic region from 1720 to 1800. Measured in constant prices, export volumes grew rapidly in this period, but were unable to outpace the rapid growth of population and the labor force. Despite significant short-run fluctuations, per capita export values displayed no trend. At the same time, regional terms of trade improved considerably, increasing the foreign exchange earnings produced for any real export quantity. Chapter literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Thomas Weiss) Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0363-3268&volume=29&articleid=17076725&show=abstract http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/S0363-3268(2013)0000029003 Editorial literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Christopher Hanes, Susan Wolcott) Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0363-3268&volume=29&articleid=17076732&show=abstract http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/S0363-3268(2013)0000029010 Editorial Board Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0363-3268&volume=29&articleid=17076733&show=abstract http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/S0363-3268(2013)0000029011 Editorial Board Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0363-3268&volume=29&articleid=17076734&show=abstract http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/S0363-3268(2013)0000029012 Editorial Board Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0363-3268&volume=29&articleid=17076724&show=abstract http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/S0363-3268(2013)0000029002 Index Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0363-3268&volume=29&articleid=17076735&show=abstract http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/S0363-3268(2013)0000029013 Miscellaneous Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000