Scottish Agriculture 1950 - 1990

Mortality in the Americas 1950-1990.

Smoking prevalence among women in the European community 1950-1990.

The paper reviews trends in tobacco use among women in the European Community (EC) between 1950 and 1990. The data suggest that EC countries occupy different points on what appears to be a common prevalence curve. Southern EC countries are represented in the early phases of this curve, marked out by sharply rising prevalence. In northern EC countries, female smoking prevalence appears to have p...

Public Policy and the Evolution of Cable Television: 1950-1990

The cable television industry evolved from make-shift configurations of antennae and wires serving fewer than one hundred customers in 1950, to an industry serving 50 million subscribers and generating revenues of almost $18 billion by 1990 [30, 31]. Although entrepreneurial ingenuity and technological innovation provided the foundation for this extraordinary growth, the Federal Communications ...

Structural and productivity change in US agriculture , 1950 – 1982

This paper tests whether structural change in US agriculture is an important channel to TFP growth and evaluates the relative impact of (i) public research and education policies, (ii) private R&D and market forces, and (iii) government farm programs on structural change. We specify a structural econometric model, fit it to US state aggregate data, 1953–1982, and use the associated reduced-form...

Rural Population Growth, 1950–1990: The Roles of Human Capital, Industry Structure, and Government Policy

Human capital raises rural incomes, but this effect is swamped by higher returns to human capital in urban markets. This leads to “brain drain” from rural areas. Populations grow more rapidly in rural counties that have a diversified employment base. Farm population grows faster (or declines more slowly) in counties with relatively high farm income, and nonfarm populations grow faster in counti...