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Earnings in the “Good Old Days”
The last two times I’ve taught my quantitative economic history course, I have assigned a micro-data collection project based on the 1901 Census of Canada. All in all, this data collection was a good experience for the students given they got some direct experience collecting primary data, coding it and then analyzing it. Moreover, I […]
Is Economic Growth Really Ending?
Robert Gordon has argued in his recent NBER paper “Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds” that growth rates have slowed and we are reverting to very low historical growth rates and indeed a period of economic stagnation. However, what I find intriguing is that an examination of some long-term data […]
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