Research in Economic History.

Front Cover -- Research in Economic History -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- A Century of Environmental Legislation -- Introduction -- Theory and Model -- Model -- Historical Evolution of Localized Values Reflected in National Decisions -- Data and Issues Overview -- Vote Selection -- Ideology -- Income, Education, and Age: Demand Shifters for Wildlife Preservation -- Anticipated Impacts: Population Density, Spatial and Habitat Conditions -- Population Density -- Spatial and Habitat Conditions -- Backgrounds to the Votes -- The Organic Act of 1897 (HR 16) -- The Lacey Act of 1900 (HR 6634) -- The Everglades National Park Act of 1934 (HR 2837) -- The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953 (HR 4198) -- Trinity River Dam Act of 1955 (HR 4663) -- The 1978 Tellico Dam Exemption from the Endangered Species Act (Amendment to HR4388) -- Fazio Amendment for the Animas-La Plata Dam project (H.AMDT 283 to HR 2203) -- The Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005 (HR 3824: the Pombo Bill) -- Analysis of the Voting Record -- Qualitative Discussion of the Historical Record -- Quantitative Methodology and Results -- Discrete Choice Random Utility Model -- Synthesis of Voting Results -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix A: Voting Patterns across All Roll Call Votes -- Appendix B: Maps -- Appendix C: Individual Vote Results, Binary Choice -- Organic Act of 1897 -- Lacey Act of 1900 -- Everglades National Park Act, 1934 -- Outer Continental Shelf Act of 1953 -- Trinity River Dam Act of 1955 -- Tellico Dam Exemption, 1978 -- Animas-La Plata Project, 1997 -- Endangered Species Act Reauthorization 2005 -- Appendix D: Multinomial Results for Early Votes -- Organic Act of 1897 -- Lacey Act of 1900 -- Everglades National Park Vote, 1934.

The Measurement of Production: Lessons from the Engineering Industry in Italy, 1911 -- Introduction -- The Product of the Engineering Industry in 1911 -- The 1911 Censuses -- The Engineering Industry -- The Factor-Employment Data and Estimates -- The Labor-Cost Estimates -- The Capital-Cost and Value Added Estimates -- The Structure of the General Engineering Industry in 1911 -- The Disaggregation of the Industry -- Maintenance and New Production: The Approach -- Maintenance and New Production: Fabricated Metal, Precision Instruments, Clocks, and Watches -- Maintenance and New Production: General Equipment -- Maintenance and New Production: Metal Consumption -- On Method -- Notes -- References -- APPENDIX A: ESTIMATED EMPLOYMENT OF LABOR AND HORSEPOWER -- APPENDIX B: ESTIMATED CAPITAL COSTS PER HORSEPOWER -- APPENDIX C: ESTIMATED UNIT METAL CONSUMPTION AND VALUE ADDED -- APPENDIX D: THE GRIONI SAMPLE -- APPENDIX E: EARLY DATA AND THE SHARE OF MAINTENANCE IN 1911 -- Is Paper Money Just Paper Money? Experimentation and Variation in the Paper Monies Issued by the American Colonies from 169... -- Introduction -- Were Bills of Credit Used as a Medium of Exchange? -- Institutional Constraints: Why Bills of Credit? -- How Colonial Paper Monies Differed -- Redemption Mechanisms for Zero-Coupon Bonds -- The Tax-Redemption Mechanism -- The Land-Bank-Loan Redemption Mechanism -- The Sinking Fund Redemption Mechanism -- Calculating APVt -- Did Colonists Understand the Necessity of Time-Discounting Zero-Coupon Bonds? -- Overlapping Zero-Coupon Bond Redemption Structures -- The Empirical Value of Zero-Coupon Bills of Credit -- Interest-Bearing Bills of Credit -- Legal Tender Laws -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- APPENDIX -- New Quantitative Estimates of Long-Term Military Spending in Spain (1850-2009) -- Introduction.

International Definitions of Military Spending -- Methodological Discussion on the Spanish Dataset and Data Sources -- The Data Sources -- Methodological Discussion on the Spanish Military Spending Series -- Spanish Military Spending (1850-2009) -- Data on Total Military Spending (1850-2009) -- Previous Estimates on Spanish Military Expenditure in Modern Times -- A Periodization of the Evolution of Spanish Military Expenditure -- 1850-1876 -- 1877-1907 -- 1908-1935 -- 1939-1975 -- 1977-2009 -- International Comparisons (1870-2009) -- 1870-1913 -- 1914-1945 -- 1947-2009 -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Health, Gender and the Household: Children's Growth in the Marcella Street Home, Boston, MA, and the Ashford School, London, UK -- Introduction -- Gender Differences in Health and Gender Discrimination in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Britain and America -- The Samples -- The Marcella Street Home, 1889-1898 -- The Ashford School of the West London School District, 1908-1916 -- Sample Selection Bias: Was There a Different Selection Process for Girls and Boys? -- Growth References, Growth Curves and Measuring Catch-Up Growth -- The 2006/2007 World Health Organization's (WHO) Growth References -- Catch-Up Growth through the Life of Daniel O'Brien -- Preconditions for Catch-Up Growth -- Relative Deprivation of Children -- A Positive Health Intervention: The Marcella Street Home, 1889-1998 -- A Positive Health Intervention: The Ashford School, 1908-1916 -- Catch-Up Growth in the Marcella Street Home and Ashford School -- A Descriptive Look at Catch-Up Growth in the Institutions -- Modelling Catch-Up Growth in a Multiple Regression Framework -- Catch-Up Growth Regression Results -- Catch-Up Growth and Gender Disparities in Health -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- APPENDIX.

Entry, Competition, and Terms of Credit in Early American Banking -- Introduction -- Historical Background -- Data -- Analysis of Loan Patterns -- Regression Analysis: Loans and Borrower Characteristics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References.

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