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Cliometrica Volume 14 Issue 2

Subject Areas: History
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg - Springer Journals
ISSN: 1863-2505
SJR: 18

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Medical education reforms and the origins of the rural physician shortage

Moehling, Carolyn M.; Niemesh, Gregory T.; Thomasson, Melissa A.; Treber, Jaret

2020 Cliometrica

doi:10.1007/s11698-019-00187-w

In the first two decades of the twentieth century, medical schools increased standards for admission and added basic science to their curricula. During this time period, the probability a new medical school graduate located in a rural area declined by 40%. Using novel data from the American...
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A new estimate of Lithuanian GDP for 1937: How does interwar Lithuania compare?

Klimantas, Adomas; Zirgulis, Aras

2020 Cliometrica

doi:10.1007/s11698-019-00189-8

Utilizing archival data from the Lithuanian Central Bureau of Statistics, we piece together the most complete gross domestic product (GDP) figure during the interwar period for Lithuania in accordance with the System of National Accounts (SNA 2008). Lithuania and the other Baltic states have...
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How much did uncertainty shocks matter in the Great Depression?

Mathy, Gabriel P.

2020 Cliometrica

doi:10.1007/s11698-019-00190-1

The USA in the 1930s experienced unprecedented uncertainty. Uncertainty shocks buffeted the economy during recessionary periods, but these shocks receded during the recovery periods of the Great Depression. Using vector autoregressions on monthly data for 1919–1941, I show that a one standard...
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Industrial activities and primary schooling in early nineteenth-century France

Montalbo, Adrien

2020 Cliometrica

doi:10.1007/s11698-019-00191-0

This article investigates the impact of industrial activities on primary instruction in early nineteenth-century France. To do so, I use a newly constituted database on the location and characteristics of primary schools at the level of municipalities. This database is extracted from the Guizot...
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Capital markets and grain prices: assessing the storage cost approach

Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol H.; Wang, Xin

2020 Cliometrica

doi:10.1007/s11698-019-00192-z

This paper evaluates a well-known approach from the economic history literature that uses grain prices to shed light on interest rates. Although this method has been applied in influential work starting with McCloskey and Nash (Am Econ Rev 74:174–187, 1984) and has potentially wide applicability...
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How many rushed during the Oklahoma land openings?

Allen, Douglas W.; Leonard, Bryan

2020 Cliometrica

doi:10.1007/s11698-019-00193-y

At noon on April 22, 1889, a gunshot on the border of what was then called the Unassigned Lands of the Indian Territory launched the first of six well-defined land giveaways in what is now the state of Oklahoma. Contemporary newspaper and eyewitness accounts described the prairie starting line as...

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