Jeffrey Williamson
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RECENT PAPERS
(Not Yet Published)
Latin Americn Growth-Inequality Trade-Offs: The Impact of Insurgence and Independence
Draft Date: December, 2009.
Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality
Draft Date: August, 2009.
Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
with Timothey Hatton
Draft Date: February, 2009.
History without Evidence: Latin American Inequality since 1491
Draft Date: February, 2009.
Ottoman De-Industrialization 1800-1913: Assessing the Shock, Its Impact and the Response
with Sevket Pamuk
Draft Date: February, 2009.
Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700
with David S. Jacks and Kevin H. O'Rourke
Draft Date: February, 2009.
Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation
with Sambit Bhattacharyya
Draft Date: January, 2009.
Ancient Inequality
with Branko Milanovic and Peter H. Lindert
Draft Date: June, 2008.
Ancient Inequality Appendices
Globalization and Underdevelopment in the pre-Modern Third World
The Luca d'Agliano Lecture, Turin (March 31, 2006)
Draft Date: March 15, 2006.
De-Industrialization and Underdevelopment:A Comparative Assessment Around the Periphery 1750-1939
Draft Date: December 2004.
The Tariff Response to World Market Integration in the Periphery Before the Modern Era
Draft Date: June 2004.
What Explains Cross-Border Migration in Latin America?
with Ximena Clark and Timothy J. Hatton
Draft Date: June 2003.
(Not Yet Published)
NBER Paper #13990
Was It Prices, Productivity or Policy? The Timing and Pace of Latin American Industrialization after 1870
with Aurora Gómez Galvarriato
Draft Date: May, 2008.
NBER Paper #13841
Globalization and the Great Divergence: Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
Draft Date: March, 2008.
NBER Paper #13550
Measuring Ancient Inequality
with Branko Milanovic and Peter H. Lindert
Draft Date: October, 2007.
NBER Paper #13055
Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913
with Joan R. Rosés and Kevin H. O'Rourke
Draft Date: April, 2007.
NBER Paper #12549
Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity: The Migration Connection
Draft Date: September, 2006.
NBER Paper #11884:
Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later
with Kevin O'Rourke
Draft Date: December 2005.
NBER Paper #11730:
Mugal Decline, Climate Change, and Britain's Industrial Ascent: An Integrated Perspective on India's 18th and 19th Century Deindustrialization
with David Clingingsmith
Draft Date: November 2005.
NBER Paper #10600:
The Impact of the Terms of Trade and Economic Development in the Periphery, 1870-1939: Volatility and Secular Change
with Christopher Blattman and Jason Hwang
Draft Date: June 2004.
NBER Paper #9401::
Closed Jaguar, Open Dragon: Comparing Tariffs in Latin America and Asia before World War II
with Michael A. Clemens
Draft Date: December 2002.
NBER Paper #9161::
Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization
Presented as the WIDER Annual Lecture,
Copenhagen, Sept. 5, 2002.
Also appeared as WIDER Annual Lecture 6, November, 2002.
Draft Date: September 2002.
NBER Paper #8998:
Where Do U.S. Immigrants Come From, and Why?
with Ximena Clark and Timothy J. Hatton
Draft Date: June 2002.
Not Appearing Above
Who Protected and Why? Tariffs the World Around 1870-1938,
with Christopher Blattman and Michael A. Clemens
Presented at the Conference on the Political Economy of Globalization, Trinity College, Dublin, August 29-31, 2002.
Draft Date: August, 2002.
Is Protection Bad for Growth? Will Globalization Last? Looking for Answers in History,
Presented at the 13th IEHA Congress,
Buenos Aires, August 22-26, 2002
Draft Date: June 2002.
HIER Paper #1842: Real Wages and Relative Factor Prices in the Third World 1820-1940: The Mediterranean Basin (Appendix separate, below). This paper has been published as "Real Wages and Factor Prices Around the Mediterranean 1500-1940," Chp. 3 in S. Pamuk and J.G. Williamson (eds.) The Mediterranean Response to Globalization Before 1950 (London: Routledge 2000) : 45-75.
The tables and figures in this paper have been recently updated. References to them within the text of the paper have NOT been updated.
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The Appendix (with data)for HIER 1844 is frequently revised and has been provided in three ways(click on you choice):
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The tables and figures in this paper have been recently updated. References to them within the text of the paper have NOT been updated.
The Appendix (with data)for HIER 1853 is frequently revised and has been provided in three ways(click on your choice):
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