Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 532 g
Surveys in Cliometrics
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 532 g
Reihe: Surveys of Recent Research in Economics
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3780-8
Verlag: Wiley
Economics and History presents six state-of-the-art, comprehensive surveys from some of the leading scholars in cliometrics. The contributions consider a broad range of topics from this highly topical area, covering the following issues: time series econometrics and their applications in cliometrics, international migration, income maintenance programs in the USA in the first half of the 20th Century, social savings, health and stature, and human development - a long run view.
This collection will serve as a unique resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students on quantitative and econometrics courses, as well as academics and professional economists more generally.
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Notes on Contributors vi
1 Clio and the Economist: Making Historians Count 1
David Greasley and Les Oxley
2 Social Savings 21
Tim Leunig
3 Longitudinal Studies of Human Growth and Health: A Review of Recent Historical Research 47
Kris Inwood and Evan Roberts
4 Improving Human Development: A Long-Run View 87
Leandro Prados de la Escosura
5 A Patchwork Safety Net: A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 141
Price Fishback, Samuel Allen, Jonathan Fox and Brendan Livingston
6 The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey 187
Timothy J. Hatton
7 Cliometrics and Time Series Econometrics: Some Theory and Applications 217
David Greasley and Les Oxley
Index 289