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The Adoption of Workers' Compensation in the United States, 1900–1930 by Fishback, Price V., Kantor, Shawn Everett

“…Workers' compensation was established by a coalition of workers, employers, and insurers who anticipated gains from replacing negligence liability. Employers…”
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Knowledge spillovers from research universities: Evidence from endowment value shocks by Kantor, Shawn Everett, Whalley, Alexander

“…We estimate the local spillovers from research university activity in a sample of urban counties. Our approach uses the interaction between university…”
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The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities during the Great Depression by Boustan, Leah Platt, Fishback, Price V., Kantor, Shawn

“…The Great Depression offers a unique laboratory to investigate the causal impact of migration on local labor markets. We use variation in the generosity of New…”
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Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Welfare Spending on Crime during the Great Depression by Fishback, Price V., Johnson, Ryan S., Kantor, Shawn

“…During the Great Depression contemporaries worried that people hit by hard times would resort to crime. President Franklin Roosevelt argued that the massive…”
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The Influence of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation on Housing Markets During the 1930s by Fishback, Price V., Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso, Horrace, William C., Kantor, Shawn, Treber, Jaret

“…Problems with mortgage financing are widely considered to be a major cause of the recent financial meltdown. Several modern programs have been designed to…”
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Did the New Deal solidify the 1932 Democratic realignment? by Kantor, Shawn, Fishback, Price V., Wallis, John Joseph

“…The critical election of 1932 represented a turning point in the future electoral successes of the Democrats and Republicans for over three decades. This paper…”
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The Political Economy of Coalition-Formation: The Case of Livestock Enclosure in the Postbellum South by Everett Kantor, Shawn

“…Economic conditions alone cannot explain the process of institutional change because conflicts between competing interest groups often must be resolved…”
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The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market During the New Deal by Neumann, Todd C., Fishback, Price V., Kantor, Shawn

“…We examine the dynamic relationships between relief spending and local private labor markets using a panel data set of relief, private employment, and private…”
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Agricultural policy, migration, and malaria in the United States in the 1930s by Barreca, Alan I., Fishback, Price V., Kantor, Shawn

“…The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was associated with a population shift in the United States in the 1930s. Evaluating the relationship between the AAA and…”
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Did New Deal Grant Programs Stimulate Local Economies? A Study of Federal Grants and Retail Sales During the Great Depression by FISHBACK, PRICE V., HORRACE, WILLIAM C., KANTOR, SHAWN

“…Using data on New Deal grants to each U.S. county from 1933 to 1939, we estimate how relief and public works spending and payments to farmers through the…”
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The impact of New Deal expenditures on mobility during the Great Depression by Fishback, Price V., Horrace, William C., Kantor, Shawn

“…Using county-level data on federal New Deal expenditures on public works and relief and Agricultural Adjustment Administration payments to farmers, this paper…”
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Can the New Deal’s three Rs be rehabilitated? A program-by-program, county-by-county analysis by Fishback, Price V., Kantor, Shawn, Wallis, John Joseph

“…We examine the importance of Roosevelt’s “relief, recovery, and reform” motives to the distribution of New Deal funds across over 3000 US counties, program by…”
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Empirical Studies in Institutional Change. Edited by Lee J. Alston, Thráinn Eggertsson, and Douglass C. North. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 360. $64.95, cloth; $22.95, paper by Kantor, Shawn Everett

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Precautionary Saving, Insurance, and the Origins of Workers' Compensation by Kantor, Shawn Everett, Fishback, Price V.

“…In this article we test whether the introduction of social insurance has led to a reduction in private insurance purchases and precautionary saving by…”
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Essays on English Law and the American Experience. Edited by Elisabeth A. Cawthon and David E. Narrett. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 135. $24.50 by Kantor, Shawn Everett

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Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws? by Fishback, Price V., Kantor, Shawn Everett

“…Market responses to legislative reforms often mitigate the expected gains that reformers promise in legislation. Contemporaries hailed workers' compensation as…”
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The adoption of workers' compensation in the United States, 1900-1930 by Fishback, Price V, Kantor, Shawn Everett

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Did workers pay for the passage of workers' compensation laws? by Fishback, Price V, Kantor, Shawn Everett

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Mill and Mine: The CF&I in the Twentieth Century. By H. Lee Scamehorn. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. Pp. x, 247. $37.50 by Kantor, Shawn Everett

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The Anti-Redeemers: Hill-Country Political Dissenters in the Lower South from Redemption to Populism. By Michael R. Hyman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 252. $39.95, cloth; $16.95, paper by Kantor, Shawn Everett

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