| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18396 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18396 |
| American Incomes 1774-1860 | |
| Peter H. Lindert; Jeffrey G. Williamson | |
| 发表日期 | 2012-09-13 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Building what we call social tables, this paper quantifies the level and inequality of American incomes from 1774 to 1860. In 1774 the American colonies had average incomes exceeding those of the Mother Country, even when slave households are included in the aggregate. Between 1774 and 1790, this income advantage over Britain was lost, due to the severe dislocation caused by the fight for Independence. Then between 1790 and 1860 US income per capita grew even faster than previous scholars have estimated. We also find that the South was initially much richer than the North on the eve of Revolution, but then suffered a severe reversal of fortune, so that by 1840 its white population was already poorer than free Northerners. In terms of inequality, our estimates suggest that American colonists had much more equal incomes than did households in England and Wales around 1774. Indeed, New England and the Middle Colonies appear to have been more egalitarian than anywhere else in the measureable world. Income inequality rose dramatically between 1774 and 1860, especially in the South. |
| 主题 | History ; Macroeconomic History ; Other History ; Development and Growth ; Growth and Productivity ; Country Studies |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18396 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576073 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Peter H. Lindert,Jeffrey G. Williamson. American Incomes 1774-1860. 2012. |
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