Front cover; research in economic history; copyright page; contents; list of contributors; editors' introduction; understanding aging during the epidemiologic transition; 1. introduction; 2. what is the received view of the transition?; 3. assessing the received view; 4. aging in the cohort-level data; 5. how long-reaching could be the influence of the childhood regime?; 6. conclusions, caveats, and future research; acknowledgements; references; appendix: data sources; estimating french regional income: departmental per capita gross value added, 1872-1911; introduction. Estimating french departmental gvadiscussion of gva estimates; conclusion; acknowledgements; references; appendix; improve and sit: the surrendering of land at rents below marginal product in nineteenth-century valencia, spain; introduction; what happened on the huerta?; why did it happen?; how long had it been happening?; one custom, two kinds of rents; a brief look at the irish tenant right and the mauvais gre;́ conclusions; notes; acknowledgements; references; appendix a; appendix b; passage of the married women's property acts and earnings acts in the united states: 1850 to 1920. Introductionsome economics of changes in women's economic rights; procedure for determination of women's economic rights act passage; dates of states' passage of acts; institutional and political context of act passage; temporal patterns of act passage; summary and conclusions; notes; acknowledgment; references; appendix a: state-by-state discussion of mwpa and ea enactment dates; appendix b: published date lists; appendix c; new state-level estimates of personal income in the united states, 1880-1910; introduction; methodology; data sources and calculations; revised 1880 and 1900 figures. New 1890 and 1910 estimatesdiscussion of assumptions; output-based estimates; conclusion; notes; acknowledgments; references; appendix; exports from the colonies and states of the middle atlantic region 1720-1800; introduction; measuring commodity exports; the behavior of commodity exports from the mid atlantic 1720-1800; exports of services; terms of trade; conclusion; notes; acknowledgments; references; appendix.

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