PE Beeson, DN DeJong… - Regional Science and Urban …, 2001 - Elsevier
We examine the location and growth of the US population using county-level census data
from 1840 and 1990. Natural characteristics (eg, access to water transportation) heavily
influenced where populations located in 1840, and produced characteristics in existence ...
W Troesken - 1996 - books.google.com
Why Regulate Utilities? informs and revises economic thought about regulation and
regulatory change. Showing that state regulation governed the behavior of local politicians
as well as utilities, it gives empirical muscle to the idea that regulatory commissions act ...
W Troesken - Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1997 - Oxford Univ Press
Abstract I develop and test three theories of public ownership: a small markets hypothesis, a
commitment hypothesis, and a patronage hypothesis. The empirical analysis employs a
cross section of 1274 public and private gas companies operating in 1911. With these ...
K Clay… - The Journal of Industrial Economics, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Using data from the turn-of-the-century whiskey industry, we conduct tests of the NEIO
methodology similar to those conducted by Genesove and Mullin [1998]. Like Genesove and
Mullin, we find that the NEIO methodology appears to perform reasonably well for low ...
W Troesken, R Geddes - Journal of Law, Economics, and …, 2003 - Oxford Univ Press
Abstract We consider three explanations for public ownership: public interest, regulation,
and a transaction cost interpretation. We employ a large dataset containing information on
the municipal acquisition of US private water companies between 1897 and 1915. Those ...
W Troesken - Journal of Economic History, 1999 - Cambridge Univ Press
Progressive-Era reformers claimed typhoid, a waterbome disease, was more prevalent in
cities with private water companies than in cities with public water companies. This article
tests this claim for the 1880 to 1920 period. The evidence suggests private companies ...
W Troesken - The Journal of Economic History, 2002 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract This article addresses two related questions. To what extent did cities and towns
provide African Americans adequate water and sewer services during the era of Jim Crow
(1880–1925)? What motivated local governments to allow African Americans access to ...
W Troesken - The Journal of Economic History, 2001 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract This article tests the claim that public water companies provided black communities
with better service than did private water companies. It draws from three sources: typhoid
fever rates in 1911 and 1921, waterborne disease rates in 14 North Carolina towns ...
[CITATION] Why regulate utilities
W Troesken - Ann Arbour: The University of Michigan Press, 1996
JP Ferrie… - Explorations in Economic History, 2008 - Elsevier
Between 1850 and 1925, the crude death rate in the City of Chicago fell by 60 percent. We
estimate that 30–50 percent of this reduction can be attributed water purification measures
and the subsequent eradication of diarrheal diseases and typhoid fever and its sequella. ...
W Troesken - The Review of Austrian Economics, 2002 - Springer
This paper presents a survey of the letters of Senator John Sherman, who pushed for
passage of the first federal antitrust law in the United States. By placing these letters in
historical context, this paper helps resolve a debate about Sherman's true intentions in ...
W Troesken - Journal of european economic history, 1989 - dialnet.unirioja.es
Información del artículo A Note on the Efficacy of the German Steel and Coal Syndicates.
W Troesken - Explorations in Economic History, 1995 - Elsevier
Before passage of the Sherman Act, states sometimes dissolved industrial combinations
through the use of quo warranto proceedings. This paper examines the efficacy of one of
these results-the breakup of the Chicago Gas Trust in 1889. The breakup had a negligible ...
W Troesken - 2003 - nber.org
This paper considers a largely unknown public-health practice in the United States: the use
of lead pipes to distribute household tap water. Municipalities first installed lead pipes during
the late nineteenth century. In 1897, about half of all American municipalities used lead ...
JP Ferrie… - 2005 - nber.org
Between 1850 and 1925, the crude death rate in Chicago fell by 60 percent, driven by
reductions in infectious disease rates and infant and child mortality. What lessons might be
drawn from the mortality transition in Chicago, and American cities more generally? What ...
W Troesken - 1994 - nber.org
Utilities were not always regulated by state commissions. Throughout the nineteenth
century, Massachusetts was the only state that regulated public utilities (excluding railroads),
and even in this one instance the state had only limited regulatory powers (see Stotz and ...
W Troesken - The Journal of Economic History, 1998 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract This article uses the history of the Whiskey Trust to explore the competitive effects of
vertical restraints such as exclusive dealing. The Whiskey Trust distilled alcoholic spirits and
bribed distributors not to carry competing brands of spirits. For the Whiskey Trust, ...
W Troesken - The Journal of Economic History, 1999 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract Few systematic studies of the effects of patronage on public-sector employees'
wages and working conditions exist. Exploiting a sample of nearly 90,000 workers, this
article provides systematic evidence: Where patronage was widespread, state and local ...
W Troesken… - 2003 - nber.org
By the turn of the twentieth century, cities throughout the United States were using lead
service mains to distribute water. For example, in 1900 the nation's five largest cities—New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Saint Louis, and Boston—all used lead services to varying ...
K Clay… - The Journal of Economic History, 2002 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract This article shows that the Whiskey Trust used exclusive dealing and unusually low
prices to deter entry and competition. Evidence of this is based on a unique dataset that
allows us to estimate a firm-level demand curve for the trust, and to construct direct ...
[CITATION] Did the trusts want a federal antitrust law? An event study of state antitrust enforcement and passage of the Sherman Act
W Troesken - Public Choice Interpretations of American Economic …, 2000
PE Beeson… - 2006 - nber.org
To better understand the potential economic repercussions of a bioterrorist attack, this paper
explores the effects of several catastrophic epidemics that struck American cities between
1690 and 1880. The epidemics considered here killed between 10 and 25 percent of the ...
K Clay, W Troesken… - 2010 - nber.org
This paper examines the effect of water-borne lead exposure on infant mortality in American
cities over the period 1900-1920. Infants are highly sensitive to lead, and more broadly are a
marker for current environmental conditions. The effects of lead on infant mortality are ...
W Troesken - Journal of Urban History, 2006 - juh.sagepub.com
Ask urban historians to discuss water's role in the development of cities and they will likely
focus heavily on the eradication of waterborne diseases. This emphasis is not misplaced.
Recent estimates suggest that around 1900 about one-half of all urban Americans ...
K Clay… - Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History …, 2005 - upress.pitt.edu
KAREN CLAY AND WERNER TROESKEN stripping them of virtually all of their lands. In the
process of secularization, the Catholic Church was given ownership rights in small parcels
that encompassed the mission buildings, and government officials awarded certain Native ...
J Ferrie, K Rolf… - Long-run Impact of Early Life Events II …, 2009 - ucd.ie
Abstract Understanding the link between early and later circumstances is vital to enhancing
our understanding of basic physiological, social, and economic mechanisms in operation
over the entire life course, to identifying the protective factors that mitigate the negative ...
W Troesken - 2006 - nber.org
The history of public utility regulation in the United States has an odd circular quality. During
the late nineteenth century, gas and electric companies were subject to limited regulatory
oversight; by the early twentieth century, they were subject to burdensome municipal ...
[CITATION] Lead Water Pipes and Infant Mortality at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
T Werner - Journal of Human Resources, 2008
W Troesken - George Mason University, Mercatus Center. …, 2007 - ppe.mercatus.org
Abstract* Werner Troesken is the FA Harper Professor of Economics and Professor of
History at the Mercatus Center & George Mason University and a faculty research associate
at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Municipalizing American Waterworks, 1897-1914,”
W Troesken, R Geddes - Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
[CITATION] Senator Sherman, Standard Oil, and the Battle for Antitrust
W Troesken - Unpublished paper, Department of History, University …, 1994
[CITATION] 'Death and the City: Chicago's Mortality Transition.''
JP Ferrie… - Unpublished paper, Northwestern University and the …, 2004
W Troesken… - University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon …, 1999 - Citeseer
Abstract: During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the American economy was
transformed by the emergence of trusts and other large combinations. There is little scholarly
consensus as to how these combinations affected consumer prices, and whether they ...
JP Ferrie, K Rolf… - 2011 - nber.org
Assessing the impact of lead exposure is difficult if individuals select on the basis of their
characteristics into environments with different exposure levels. We address this issue with
data from when the dangers of lead exposure were still largely unknown, using new ...
K Clay… - … of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and …, 2011 - books.google.com
In 1903, at a meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society, a British climatologist named
Frederick J. Brodie presented a deceptively simple paper. Using data from the Brixton
weather station in London, Brodie graphed the number foggy days per year between 1871 ...
PV Fishback, W Troesken, T Kollmann… - The Economics of …, 2011 - books.google.com
Global warming has become a watchword for environmental policy over the past three
decades. Daily temperature highs were thought to have reached the highest levels in
recorded history within the past decade. Each month, there are reports of new studies of ...
W Troesken - 2010 - ideas.repec.org
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[CITATION] Regime Change and Corruption. A History of Public
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Many significant regulatory changes occurred during the Gilded Age and the Progressive
Era (the GAPE). The federal government passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Interstate
Commerce Act, and the Food and Drug Act. State governments created state commissions ...
W Troesken - Historically Speaking, 2010 - en.scientificcommons.org
Publikationsansicht. 55929622. Toward a Richer, More Diverse Intellectual Marketplace?:
A Response To Whaples (2010). Werner Troesken. Abstract. Historically Speaking -
Volume 11, Number 2, April 2010. Details der Publikation. ...
W Troesken - The Journal of Economic History, 2001 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the
Present by Martin V. Melosi is a big book in every sense. It spans a multitude of disciplines,
including economics, environmental policy, history, law, political science, and public ...
[CITATION] 2 The Institutional Antecedents of State Utility Regulation: The Chicago Gas Industry, 1860 to
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K Clay… - nber.org
In 1903, at a meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society, a British climatologist named
Frederick J. Brodie presented a deceptively simple paper. Using data from the Brixton
weather station in London, Brodie graphed the number foggy days per year between 1871 ...
W Troesken - The Journal of Economic History, 2002 - Cambridge Univ Press
As more and more historians take the linguistic turn and abandon facts and figures for
fashion and fiction, it is more than a little refreshing to encounter the work of someone such
as Charles Jacobson. In Ties That Bind, Jacobson explores the history of the economic ...
JE Murray, TG Emery, AH Loncan, J Silvestre… - eh.net
ABSTRACT: Contrary to theoretical and intuitive expectations, little empirical evidence of
asymmetric information in insurance contracts has emerged. Further, the prospective
difficulties of distinguishing between moral hazard and asymmetric information are ...
L Barrington, L Brandt, F Carstensen, S Engerman… - Cambridge Univ Press
The Editors and the Association wish to thank the following individuals who were chairs or discussants
at the 1994 Economic History Association meetings. Their comments helped the authors prepare
their final drafts and provided invaluable advice to the Editors.
W Troesken - Journal of Economic History, 2008 - Cambridge Univ Press
The story McShane and Tarr tell is mostly about the challenges associated with using the
horse as a machine, and they make clear that most owners placed economic considerations
before humane ones. The salience of economics can be seen in a number of examples. ...
K Clay, W Troesken… - 2006 - nber.org
Beginning around 1880, public health issues and engineering advances spurred the
installation of city water and sewer systems. As part of this growth, many cities chose to use
lead service pipes to connect residences to city water systems. This choice had negative ...
[CITATION] The Chicago gas industry, 1887-1913: an economic analysis of institutional change
W Troesken - 1992 - Washington University, 1992. …
W Troesken - The Journal of Economic History, 1996 - Cambridge Univ Press
Download a branded Cambridge Journals Online toolbar (for IE 7 only). What is this? ... Add
Cambridge Journals Online as a search option in your browser toolbar. What is this? ... Cities
of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America. By Mark Rose. ...
W Troesken - Journal of Human Resources, 2008 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract In 1897, about half of all American municipalities used lead pipes to distribute
water. Employing data from Massachusetts, this paper compares infant death rates in cities
that used lead water pipes to rates in cities that used nonlead pipes. In the average town ...
W Troesken - 2010 - ideas.repec.org
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M GUGLIELMO… - Government & the American …, 2007 - books.google.com
The Gilded Age was fraught with paradox. On one hand, it was a period of economic
centralization and integration; on the other, it was a period of social fragmentation and
isolation. The forces driving centralization and integration were powerful and manifold, ...
K Clay… - 2010 - nber.org
In a paper presented to the Royal Meteorological Society, Brodie (1905) presented a data
series that presaged the modern Environmental Kuznets Curve: in the decades leading up
to 1890, the number of foggy days in London rose steadily, but after 1891, the fogs began ...
P Fishback, W Troesken, T Kollmann… - NBER Working Paper …, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Global warming has become a watchword for environmental policy over the past three
decades. Daily temperature highs were thought to have reached the highest levels in
recorded history within the past decade. Each month there are reports of new studies of ...
W Troesken - 2010 - nber.org
Between 1810 and 1939, real per capita spending on patent medicines grew by a factor of
114; real per capita GDP by a factor of 5. The long-term growth and survival this industry is
puzzling when juxtaposed with standard historical accounts, which typically portray patent ...
W Troesken - The Journal of Economic History, 1997 - Cambridge Univ Press
Narrative, not theory, drives this book. Appropriately, the narrative is complex and dynamic;
change, contradiction and irony pervade the history of gas pipeline regulation. Castaneda
and Smith describe how technological change, and the discovery of natural gas fields in ...
W Troesken - Critical Review, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Conventional wisdom maintains that without government intervention, capitalism is
prone to collapse, as it did during the 1930s, and that only Keynesian policies have
stabilized post‐World War II capitalism. But recent research suggests that postwar ...
W Troesken - 2010 - ideas.repec.org
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[CITATION] Some Historical Evidence
W Troesken… - Health and labor force …, 2003 - University Of Chicago Press
JP Ferrie, K Rolf… - Economics & Human Biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Higher prior exposure to water-borne lead among male World War Two US Army enlistees
was associated with lower intelligence test scores. Exposure was proxied by urban
residence and the water pH levels of the cities where enlistees lived in 1930. Army ...
[CITATION] Book Review| New Books
W Troesken - Environmental Health Perspectives, 2008
M Guglielmo… - u.arizona.edu
The Gilded Age was fraught with paradox. On the one hand, it was a period of economic
centralization and integration; on the other hand, it was a period of social fragmentation and
isolation. The forces driving centralization and integration were powerful and manifold, ...
[CITATION] EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES
PHWJ Collins, T Murphy… - The Journal …, 2005 - Economic History Association at …
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