S Kim - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1995 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper presents evidence on the long-run trends in US regional specialization
and localization and examines which model of regional specialization is most consistent
with the data. Regional specialization in the United States rose substantially between ...
S Kim - 1997 - nber.org
Despite the recent inroads made by models of interregional trade based on external"
economies, the analysis of the long-run trends in US regional specialization in agriculture
manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, services, and all economic activities indicate ...
S Kim - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1999 - Elsevier
This paper estimates the Rybczynski equation matrix for the twenty two-digit US
manufacturing industries for various years between 1880 and 1987. As predicted by the
standard general equilibrium theory of interregional trade, the regression estimates show ...
S Kim - 1999 - nber.org
The United States transformed itself from a rural to an urban society over the last three
centuries. After a century of unremarkable growth, the pace of urbanization was historically
unprecedented between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the twentieth ...
S Kim… - Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
Abstract We review historical patterns of economic geography for the United States from the
colonial period to the present day. The analysis is framed in terms of two geographic scales:
regions and cities. The compelling reason for studying geographic area of two different ...
S Kim - 1998 - nber.org
The modern multiunit enterprise has been touted by historians and economic historians as a
major and important phase of organizational change and a significant source of growth.
However, no systematic record of the prevalence and patterns of multiunit activity has yet ...
MT Law… - 2004 - nber.org
This paper explores the origins and effects of occupational licensing regulation in late
nineteenth and early twentieth century America. Was licensing regulation introduced to limit
competition in the market for professional services at the expense of efficiency? Or was ...
S Kim - Journal of Regional Science, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT This paper documents the long-run trends in the average densities and density
gradients of urban areas in the United States. The data show that between 1890 and 2000
the average densities of cities and metropolitan areas rose and fell but that the density ...
S Kim - 2002 - nber.org
One of the most important representations of an urban spatial structure is its density. Indeed,
an urban area is defined as a densely populated place with a sizeable number of
inhabitants. Yet, despite the fact that the defining element of an urban area is its density, ...
S Kim - 2001 - nber.org
The expansion of markets and industrialization greatly increased the benefits of
specialization in the US economy. However, since the benefits of specialization can only be
realized through trade, specialization significantly increases the volume of market ...
S Kim - 2007 - nber.org
Industrial revolution is fundamentally linked with the rise of factories and the decline of
skilled artisans in manufacturing. Most scholars agree that factories as compared to artisan
shops were intensive in unskilled labor. Indeed, the hallmark of the early factories is the ...
S Kim - Explorations in Economic History, 2005 - Elsevier
Industrialization and urbanization are seen as interdependent processes of modern
economic development. However, the exact nature of their causal relationship is still open to
considerable debate. This paper uses firm-level data from the manuscripts of the ...
S Kim - 2007 - nber.org
The development of the American economy was accompanied by significant spatial income
inequalities between the northern and southern regions. While many factors contributed to
northern industrialization and southern stagnation, an important factor was differences in ...
S Kim - Urbanization and Growth, 2008 - books.google.com
Although systematic evidence on the extent of spatial inequality in developing countries is
still relatively scarce, a growing body of work documents the existence of such inequalities in
countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America (Kanbur and Venables 2005a, 2005b; ...
S Kapur… - 2006 - nber.org
We explore the impact of British colonial institutions on the economic development of India.
In some regions, the British colonial government assigned property rights in land and taxes
to landlords whereas in others it assigned them directly to cultivators or non-landlords. ...
S Kim - Journal of Economic Geography, 2006 - Oxford Univ Press
Abstract Industrial revolution in the USA first took hold in rural New England as factories
arose and grew in a handful of industries such as textiles and shoes. However, as factory
scale economies rose and factory production techniques were adopted by an ever- ...
S Kim… - 1996 - chicagofed.org
Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Midwest became the dominant
manufacturing region of the United States. The Midwest's manufacturing employment rose
from 144.6 thousand to 4.3 million employees between 1860 and 1947 and its share of ...
T Chakraborty… - 2008 - nber.org
This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at
the turn of the twentieth century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and
region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at the district-level using data from the ...
[CITATION] Regions, Resources, and Economic Geography: The Evolution of US Regional Economies, 1860-1987
S Kim - Washington University in St. Louis (September). …, 1995
S Galiani… - … , Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy. NBER …, 2008 - soks.wustl.edu
Abstract: In this paper, we explore the causes of urban primacy in the Americas using the
insight that primate cities are often political capitals. Using extensive data on cities, we
estimate the impact of capital city status on urban concentration after controlling for ...
[CITATION] Political Institutions, Federalism and US Urban Development: The Case of American Exceptionalism
S Kim - Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2008
S Kim - Research in Economic History, 1999 - soks.wustl.edu
Page 1. The Growth of Modern Business Enterprises in the Twentieth Century Sukkoo
Kim Washington University in St. Louis and NBER March 1999 Research assistance
from Jennifer Loughman and Jessica Mikecz, financial ...
[CITATION] Historical perspectives on cities and trade in the United States
S Kim… - Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, 2004
T Chakraborty… - Demography, 2010 - Springer
Abstract This article explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in
India at the turn of the twentieth century. Because kinship rules vary by caste, language,
religion, and region, we construct sex ratios by these categories at the district level by ...
S Kim… - Journal of Regional Science, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Every nation, formally or informally, defines and establishes the lines of political
and fiscal authority among its national, regional, and local governments. Historically,
centralized governments tend to restrict the power and autonomy of provincial and local ...
[CITATION] On European Economic Integration: Lessons from American History
S Kim - Newsletter of the APSA's Organized Section in …, 1995
[CITATION] Economic Integration and Convergence: US Regions
S Kim - 1840
[CITATION] Trends in US Regional Manufacturing Structure, 1860---1987
S Kim - 1992 - Ph. D. diss., University of California, …
[CITATION] Notes on Legal Developments in Colonial Massachusetts and Virginia
S Kim - 2003
S Kim - The Journal of Economic History, 1999 - JSTOR
In receqt years there has been a resurgence of interest in the phenomenon of economic
growth. The interest was sparked by the introduction of new models by Paul Romer and
Robert Lucas.'The neoclassical Solow growth model, despite its influence over the years, ...
S Kim… - 2010 - uccs-dev.dss.ucdavis.edu
Abstract In this paper, we examine the comparative effect of US and Canadian federalism on
urban development using the differential impact of political capitals on city population. In the
US, the Jeffersonian-Jacksonian tradition of states rights and localism was transformed ...
MT Law… - Handbook on the Politics of Regulation, 2012 - books.google.com
Despite the United States being the world's largest free market economy, government
regulation of economic activity is a pervasive feature of the American economy of the early
twenty-first century. The foods Americans eat, the cars they drive, the medicines they take, ...
S Galiani… - Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: …, 2011 - books.google.com
In his pioneering article, Jefferson (1939) extolled the virtues of the largest or the primate city
of each nation. For Jefferson, in almost every country, the primate city, usually a capital city,
housed the finest wares, the rarest articles, the greatest talents and skilled workers and, ...
S Kim - The Journal of Economic History, 2001 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract In the United States the density of economic activity in cities differed significantly
over time. Between the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, cities became
increasingly dense; however, since the second half of the twentieth century, the trend has ...
L Brandt, C Buchheim, S Carter, J Cohen, D Costa… - Cambridge Univ Press
The editors and the Association wish to thank all those who were program commit- tee
members, chairs, discussants, dissertation conveners, local arrangement committee
members, and the meetings coordinator. ... Daniel Bogart, University of California, Irvine ...
AL Fairchild, DL Graizbord, EC Greene… - Social …, 2006 - jpl.sagepub.com
Kaza, Nikhil. 2006. Tyranny of the median and costly consent: A reflection on the justification
for participatory urban planning processes. Planning Theory 5, 3: 255-70. Sager, Tore. 2006.
The logic of critical communicative planning: Transaction cost alteration. Planning Theory ...
S Kim - 2008 - economics.wustl.edu
The course will be based on the reading of scholarly journal articles and book manuscripts. Most
of the readings listed below will be available on telesis. The journal articles can also be freely
downloaded from www.jstor.org and, for more recent articles, from Olin library's online ...
S Kim - Journal of Economic History, 2008 - Cambridge Univ Press
Maury Klein's Genesis of Industrial America is an erudite interpretative survey of one of the
most important periods of American economic history—the Second Industrial Revolution.
Although it is not a work of original research nor a work of truly original ideas, the book ...
MT Law… - regulation.huji.ac.il
We examine the rise of the US regulatory state with a specific focus on regulations that arose
during the Progressive Era, the period during which state and federal governments became
dominant actors in regulating economic activity. Our analysis highlights four key themes in ...
Abstract In this paper, we explore the causes of urban primacy in the Americas using the
insight that primate cities are often political capitals. Using extensive data on cities, we
estimate the impact of capital city status on urban concentration after controlling for ...
F Bateman, G Boyer, S Broadberry, L Cain… - Cambridge Univ Press
The editors and the Association with to thank all those who were program committee
members, chairs, discussants, dissertation conveners, and local arrangements committee members
at the 2002 Economic History Association Meetings. ... Fred Bateman, University of ...
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