Jeffrey Williamson
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RECENT PAPERS
Pre-Industrial Inequality: An Early Conjectural Map
with Branko Milanovic and Peter H. Lindert
Draft Date: August, 2007.
The Impact of Immigration: Comparing Two Global Eras
with Timothy J. Hatton
Draft Date: April, 2007.
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 #13055
Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913
with Joan R. Rosés and Kevin H. O'Rourke
Draft Date: April, 2007.
NBER Paper #12610
Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
with Robert Bates and John Coatsworth
Draft Date: October, 2006.
NBER Paper #12553
Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces: Lessons from History
Draft Date: September, 2006.
NBER Paper #12549
Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity: The Migration Connection
Draft Date: September, 2006.
NBER Paper #12414
What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries
with Timothey J. Hatton
Draft Date: August 2006
NBER Paper #12316
Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879
with Rafael Dobado Gonzalez and Aurora Gomez Galvarriato.
Draft Date: June 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 #11866:
A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies?
with Tim Hatton
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.
Revised Version of NBER Paper #9656:
forthcoming in Eli F. Heckscher 1879-1952: A Celebratory Symposium
Was it Stolper-Samuelson, Infant Industry or Something Else? World Trade Tariffs 1789-1938
Draft Date: June 2003.
NBER Paper #9656::
Was it Stolper-Samuelson, Infant Industry or Something Else? World Trade Tariffs 1789-1938
Draft Date: April 2003.
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 #9159::
What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?
with Timothy J. Hatton
Presented as the WIDER Conference on Migration,
in Helsinki, September 27-28, 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.
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.
The Appendix (with data) for HIER 1842 is frequently revised and has been provided in three ways(click on your choice):
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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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