Public schooling and corporate regulation: essays on institutions of development in the early twentieth-century United States

This dissertation studies three institutions of development in the United States during the early twentieth century. The first chapter exploits a unique shift in agricultural production in the American South to analyze how the cultivation of a child labor intensive crop (cotton) impacted schooling,...

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Main Author: Baker, Richard B.
Language:en_US
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/15249