| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w29852
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 29852
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| Strengthening State Capacity: Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age |
| Abhay Aneja; Guo Xu
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| 发表日期 | 2022-03-21
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| 出版年 | 2022
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We use newly digitized records from the U.S. Post Office to study how strengthening state capacity affects public service delivery and innovation in over 2,700 cities between 1875–1905. Exploiting the gradual expansion of a major civil service reform, cities with a reformed postal office experience fewer errors in delivery, lower unit costs, and an increase in mail handled per worker. This improvement goes with greater information flow, as measured by increased volumes of mail and newspapers. We use personnel data to show that reformed offices see a decline in turnover and an increase in merit-based retention, consistent with a reduction in political interference. We observe more joint patenting involving inventors and businesses from different cities, suggesting that a more effective postal service contributed to innovation and growth during the Gilded Age. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics
; Welfare and Collective Choice
; Other
; Accounting, Marketing, and Personnel
; History
; Other History
; Development and Growth
; Innovation and R&
; D
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29852
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587523
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