Human Capital and Institutions : A Long-Run View (Hardcover)

Introduction David Eltis and Frank D. Lewis; Part I. Health and Living Standards: 1. Biotechnology and the burden of age-related diseases Robert W. Fogel; 2. Extending the reach of anthropometric history to the distant past Richard H. Steckel; 3. Insecurity, safety nets, and self-help in Victorian and Edwardian England George R. Boyer; Part II. Institutions and Schooling: 4. The evolution of schooling institutions in the Americas, 1800?1925 Stanley L. Engerman, Elisa V. Mariscal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff; 5. Why the United States led in education: lessons from secondary school expansion, 1910 to 1940 Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz; 6. The production of engineers in New York colleges and universities, 1800?1950: some new data Michael Edelstein; Part III. Human Capital Outliers: 7. The life-cycle of great artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns David W. Galenson and Robert Jensen; 8. An elite minority: Jews among the richest 400 Americans Peter Temin; Part IV. Constraints in Labor and Financial Markets: 9. Suffrage and the terms of labor Robert J. Steinfeld; 10. Prodigals and projectors: an economic history of usury laws in the United States from colonial times to 1900 Hugh Rockoff.