ABSTRACT The County Business Patterns data published by the US Census Bureau track
employment by county and industry from 1946 to the present. Two features of the data limit …

This article reviews recent literature using insights from history to answer central questions
in urban economics. This area of research has seen rapid growth in the past decade, thanks …

Between 1880 and 1920, the US agricultural employment share fell from 50% to 25%.
However, despite aggregate demand shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural …

In applied historical research, geographic units often differ in level of aggregation across
datasets. One solution is to use crosswalks that associate factors located within one …

Wind energy expansion has influenced electoral behavior by decreasing support for
incumbents, primarily explained by not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) arguments. However, how …

Innovation is an important driver of potential growth but quantitative evidence on the
dynamics of innovative activities in the long-run are hardly documented due to the lack of …

This paper evaluates large-scale hydroelectric dams built in the United States during the
twentieth century. Combining panel event-study designs and synthetic control methods, two …

The 1940s witnessed substantial reductions in the Black-white earnings gap. We study the
role that domestic WWII defense production played in reducing this gap. Exploiting variation …

This paper revisits the link between electrification and the rise in female labour force
participation (LFP), and presents theoretical and empirical evidence showing that …

To evaluate actions taken to implement the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the primary
goal of which was to foster competition in the industry, the FCC created a standardized form …