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Impact of tropical storms on the banking sector in the British Colonial Caribbean Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2024-02-19
Abstract This paper investigates the impact of four historical tropical storms on the Colonial Bank’s operations in the British Caribbean between 1922 and 1927. By employing a high-frequency data set of bank transactions, this study reveals how these severe shocks influenced the banking activities of clients. The findings reveal a multifaceted and significant impact of tropical storm strikes on the
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The long-run persistence in dividend policy Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Leentje Moortgat, Jan Annaert, Marc Deloof
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Correction to: The origins of Italian human capital divides: new evidence from marriage signatures, ca. 1815 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Marco Martinez
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Numeracy and consistency in age declarations: a case study on nineteenth and twentieth century Catalonia Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Joana María Pujadas-Mora, María Carmen Pérez-Artés
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Wages, prices and living standards in Spanish America: evidence from Lima Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Luis Felipe Zegarra
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Cliometrics of learning-adjusted years of schooling: evidence from a new dataset Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Nadir Altinok, Claude Diebolt
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Reinventing perished “Belgium of the East”: new estimates of GDP for inter-war Latvia (1920–1939) Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Adomas Klimantas, Zenonas Norkus, Jurgita Markevičiūtė, Ola Honningdal Grytten, Jānis Šiliņš
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Sicilian sulphur and mafia: resources, working conditions and the practice of violence Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Carlo Ciccarelli, Alberto Dalmazzo, Tiziano Razzolini
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Does the conquest explain Quebec’s historical poverty? The economic consequences of 1760 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Vincent Geloso
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The origins of Italian human capital divides: new evidence from marriage signatures, ca. 1815 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Marco Martinez
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Influenza pandemics and macroeconomic fluctuations 1871–2016 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Fraser Summerfield, Livio Di Matteo
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An analysis of the occupations of free women in the antebellum USA Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
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Economic development, female wages and missing female births in Spain, 1900–1930 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Rebeca Echavarri, Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia
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Path dependence in an evolving system: a modeling perspective Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Thomas Brenner, Sonja zu Jeddeloh
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Gender inequality in a transition economy: heights and sexual height dimorphism in Southwestern France, 1640–1850 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Leonardo Ridolfi
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Measuring stock market integration during the Gold Standard Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Rebecca Stuart
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The urban–rural height gap: evidence from late nineteenth-century Catalonia Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Ramon Ramon-Muñoz, Josep-Maria Ramon-Muñoz
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Competitive devaluations in the 1930s: myth or reality? Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Jonas Ljungberg
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Bank risk and stockholding (1910−1934) Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-11-19 Matthew Jaremski
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Benchmarking Latvia’s economy: a new estimate of gross domestic product in the 1930s Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Zenonas Norkus, Jurgita Markevičiūtė, Ola Grytten, Jānis Šiliņš, Adomas Klimantas
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Determinants in the adoption of a non-labor-substitution technology: mechanical ventilation in West Virginia coal mines, 1898–1907 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Javier Silvestre, John E. Murray
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Going public: evidence from stock and bond IPOs in Belgium, 1839–1935 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Marc Deloof, Abe de Jong, Wilco Legierse
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The European marriage pattern and the sensitivity of female age at marriage to economic context. Montesquieu-Volvestre, 1660–1789 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 David Le Bris, Ronan Tallec
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The Italian coal shortage: the price of import and distribution, 1861–1911 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Vania Licio
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Of families and inheritance: law and development in England before the Industrial Revolution Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Peter Grajzl, Peter Murrell
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Education and household decision-making in Spanish mining communities, 1877–1924 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Adrian Palacios-Mateo
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Regional variation in the GDP per capita of colonial Indonesia, 1870–1930 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Ulbe Bosma, Bas van Leeuwen
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Starting high school? On the origins of secondary education in Spain, 1857–1901 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Pau Insa-Sánchez, Alfonso Díez-Minguela
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Competition between securities markets: stock exchange industry regulation in the Paris financial center at the turn of the twentieth century Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, Amir Rezaee, Angelo Riva
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Unenlightened peasants? Farming techniques among French-Canadians, circa 1851 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Vincent Geloso
A long-standing item of interest in Canadian economic history is the “agricultural crisis” that apparently plagued the large colony of Quebec during the first half of the nineteenth century. One particularly resilient explanation of the crisis claims that cultural conservatism made the colony’s French-Canadian population reluctant to embrace modern farming techniques developed in Britain and the US
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The benefits of US statehood: an analysis of the growth effects of joining the USA Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Robbert Maseland, Rok Spruk
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Correction to: Recent trends in publications of economic historians in Europe and North America (1980–2019): an empirical analysis Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Nadia Fernández-de-Pinedo,Alvaro La Parra-Perez,Félix-Fernando Muñoz
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Wealth and shifting demand pressures on the price level in England after the Black Death Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Anthony Edo, Jacques Melitz
The scale of the rise in personal wealth following the Black Death calls the life-cycle hypothesis of consumption into consideration. Based on price level evidence, this paper shows for the first time that the wealth effect of the Black Death on economic activity continued in England for generations, up to 1450. Indeed, in the absence of consideration of the wealth effect, other influences on the price
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Counting the missing poor in pre-industrial societies Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Mathieu Lefebvre, Pierre Pestieau, Gregory Ponthiere
Under income-differentiated mortality, poverty measures suffer from a selection bias: they do not count the missing poor (i.e., persons who would have been counted as poor provided they did not die prematurely). The Pre-Industrial period being characterized by an evolutionary advantage (i.e., a higher number of surviving children per household) of the non-poor over the poor, one may expect that the
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Recent trends in publications of economic historians in Europe and North America (1980–2019): an empirical analysis Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Nadia Fernández-de-Pinedo, Alvaro La Parra-Perez, Félix-Fernando Muñoz
This article analyses the integration of economic history into economics using a unique dataset containing 11,143 articles written by 919 economic historians and published between 1980 and 2019 in leading journals; we also analyzed the authors’ biographical information. Using a probit regression, we find that since 1980, economic historians have increased their likelihood of publishing in Economics
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Is economic history changing its nature? Evidence from top journals Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Martina Cioni, Giovanni Federico, Michelangelo Vasta
A recent stream of literature argues that economic history is expanding its aim of looking for the historical roots of current outcomes (persistence studies) and that it is increasingly integrating with economics. This paper tests these claims with a new database of about 2500 articles published from 2001 to 2018 in the top five economic history journals and in eight leading economics journals. Our
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British slave emancipation and the demand for Brazilian sugar Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Christopher David Absell
This paper studies the effect of British slave emancipation on the sugar industry in the north-east of Brazil. Combining pre-existing annual data on Brazilian exports and British, French, American and Hanseatic imports with a new monthly series of imports to Liverpool and New York, I argue that the British policies following emancipation were related to a rapid increase in the demand for Brazilian
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Correction to: Inequality in late colonial Indonesia: new evidence on regional differences Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Pim de Zwart
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Franchise extension and fiscal structure in the UK 1820–1913: a new test of the Redistribution Hypothesis Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-11-09 Aidt, Toke S., Winer, Stanley L., Zhang, Peng
The Redistribution Hypothesis predicts that franchise extension causes an increase in state-sponsored redistribution. We test this hypothesis by considering the relationship between franchise extension and selected aspects of fiscal structure at both central and local government levels in the UK from 1820 to 1913. We do so without imposing a priori restrictions on the direction of causality using a
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On the origins of the demographic transition: rethinking the European marriage pattern Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Perrin, Faustine
Why did France experience the demographic transition first? This question remains one of the greatest puzzles of economics, demography, and economic history. The French pattern is hard to reconcile with elucidations of the process as found in other countries. The present analysis goes back to the roots of the process and offers novel ways of explaining why people started to control their fertility
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Judicial independence and lynching in historical context: an analysis of US States Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Dove, John, Byrd, William J.
An independent judiciary is a centrally important economic institution, and one that facilitates and promotes the protection of property rights, thereby fostering economic growth and development. On the other hand, extrajudicial lynchings, at least in the context of US states, have been tied to a lack of property rights and their protection (Carden in Institutions and southern development: lynching
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The linguistic wage gap in Quebec, 1901 to 1951 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-08-20 Dean, Jason, Geloso, Vincent
For most of Canadian economic history, French-Canadians (who composed more than a quarter of the country’s population) had living standards inferior to those of English-Canadians. This was true even within the province of Quebec, where the French-Canadians constituted a majority. Today, no significant gap remains in Quebec. Surprisingly however, the question of when the gap started to disappeared remains
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Top incomes in South Africa in the twentieth century Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Facundo Alvaredo, A. B. Atkinson
There have been important studies of recent income inequality and of poverty in South Africa, but very little is known about the long-run trends over time. There is speculation about the extent of inequality when the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, but no hard evidence. In this paper, we provide evidence that is partial—being confined to top incomes—but which for the first time shows how
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Darwin beats malthus: evolutionary anthropology, human capital and the demographic transition Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Katharina Mühlhoff
Declining mortality seems a natural explanation for the demographic transition. However, many economists have discarded improved infant survival as a causal trigger. Moreover, certain currents in Neo-Malthusian economics point to potentially beneficial side-effects of population shocks. Based on historical demography and evolutionary science, I challenge these views. The argument is that uncontrollable
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The Collapse of Civilization in Southern Mesopotamia Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Robert C. Allen, Leander Heldring
In the late ninth century, rural settlement, agriculture, and urbanization all collapsed in southern Mesopotamia. We first document this collapse using newly digitized archaeological data. We then present a model of hydraulic society that highlights the collapse of state capacity as a proximate cause of the collapse of the economy and a shortened horizon of the ruler as a potential driver of the timing
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Primary education and economic growth in nineteenth-century France Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-05-25 Adrien Montalbo
In this article, I investigate the long run relationship between education, industrialisation and growth. I evaluate the impact of primary schooling on the economic development of France between the 1830s and 1914. To do so, I rely on very precise data on education at the level of municipalities. I instrument educational achievements, namely enrolment rates and schooling years, by the proximity of
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Call the midwife. Health personnel and mortality in Norway 1887–1920 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Andreas Kotsadam, Jo Thori Lind, Jørgen Modalsli
At the turn of the twentieth century, Norway, like many other countries, experienced a decrease in mortality and a substantial increase in the number of health personnel. In order to assess how these changes were connected, we investigate the relationship between health personnel and mortality using data at the medical district level (\(N=106\)) covering a period of 34 years. We find a large and robust
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Correction to: One partition, many divisions? Ethnicities and education in Pakistan Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-04-23 Maqsood Aslam, Etienne Farvaque, Muhammad Azmat Hayat
A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-021-00233-6
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Growth recurring in preindustrial Spain? Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-04-17 Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Carlos Álvarez-Nogal, Carlos Santiago-Caballero
Research in economic history has challenged a strict Malthusian depiction of preindustrial European economies, highlighting ‘efflorescences’, ‘Smithian’ and ‘growth recurring’ episodes. Do these defining concepts apply to preindustrial Spain? In this paper, we carry out new yearly estimates of output and population for over half-a millennium. We find that our estimates of agricultural output on the
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Politics as a determinant of primary school provision: the case of Uruguay Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Paola Azar
This paper examines the relationship between school provision and the political power of the president in Uruguay between 1914 and 1954. The empirical analysis relies on fixed effects panel estimations based on newly compiled information about the partisan orientation of legislative members, electoral competition and schooling diffusion at the department-level. Ceteris paribus, I find an association
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Correction to: A “Silent Revolution”: school reforms and Italy’s educational gender gap in the Liberal Age (1861–1921) Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Gabriele Cappelli, Michelangelo Vasta
A correction to this paper to make it open access has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-021-00227-4
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One partition, many divisions? Ethnicities and education in Pakistan Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Maqsood Aslam, Etienne Farvaque, Muhammad Azmat Hayat
If historical shocks influence educational outcomes, how long does the effect last, and does it differ among ethnic groups? This study answers these questions by exploiting the historical experiment of partition—that is the splitting of the British Raj into India and Pakistan—and by presenting a theoretical model that explains the trade-offs such a shock uncovers for different ethnic groups that have
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Neonatal discrimination and excess female mortality in childhood in Spain in the first half of the twentieth century Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Rebeca Echavarri
The abnormally high sex ratio at birth (SRB) is a demographic outcome that appears in several countries in Asia and Africa and results from sex-based discrimination. Whether or not neonatal discrimination was a widespread response to socioeconomic demands during the demographic transition in Europe remains an open question. To address this concern, this paper exploits the exogenous increase in the
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The significance of climate variability on early modern European grain prices Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Peter Thejll, Bo Christiansen, Andrea Seim, Claudia Hartl, Jan Esper
Grain was the most important food source in early modern Europe (c. 1500–1800), and its price influenced the entire economy. The extent to which climate variability determined grain price variations remains contested, and claims of solar cycle influences on prices are disputed. We thoroughly reassess these questions, within a framework of comprehensive statistical analysis, by employing an unprecedentedly
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Why Eurasia? A probe into the origins of global inequalities Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Ideen A. Riahi
The abundance of domesticable mammals in Eurasia facilitated its early transition from hunter–gatherer to agricultural economies, with dramatic consequences for human history. This paper empirically examines the origins of these biogeographical advantages and finds that the extinction of large mammals during the past 100,000 years was a decisive force in the evolution of mammal domestication. In Eurasia’s
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Inequality in late colonial Indonesia: new evidence on regional differences Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Pim de Zwart
This paper adds to a growing literature that charts and explains inequality levels in pre-industrial societies. On the basis of a wide variety of primary documents, the degree of inequality is estimated for 32 different residencies, the largest administrative units and comparable to present-day provinces, of late colonial Indonesia. Four different measures of inequality (the Gini, Theil, Inequality
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A colonial cash cow: the return on investments in British Malaya, 1889–1969 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg, Stefania Galli
Historical rates of return on investments have received increasing scholarly attention in recent years. Much literature has focused especially on colonies, where institutions have been argued to facilitate severe exploitation. In the present study, we examine the return on investments in an Asian colony, British Malaya, from 1889 to 1969 for a large sample of companies. Our results suggest that the
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Capital in Spain, 1850–2019 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2021-01-10 Leandro Prados de la Escosura
The rising trend in the capital-output ratio and the productivity slowdown have put capital back in the economist’s agenda. This paper contributes to the debate by providing new estimates of net capital stock and services for Spain over the last 170 years. The net capital (wealth) stock-GDP ratio rose over time and doubled in the last half a century. Capital services grew fast over the long run accelerating
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Did profitable slave trading enable the expansion of empire?: The Asiento de Negros , the South Sea Company and the financial revolution in Great Britain Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Gregory Price, Warren Whatley
In 1711, British Parliament chartered the South Sea Company, a public–private corporation chartered to reduce the cost of government borrowing by swapping illiquid short-term government debt for tradeable shares of the South Sea Co. To attract subscribers, the government also awarded the South Sea Co. an international monopoly in the trade of African slaves to Spanish America—the Asiento de Negros
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New estimation of the gross domestic product in Baltic countries in 1913–1938 Cliometrica (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Zenonas Norkus, Jurgita Markevičiūtė
Using the demand-side approach we provide new estimates of output per capita for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in 1913, 1922, 1929, and 1938. Our findings suggest that the levels of real output per capita in Estonia and Latvia were much above the all-Russian mean in 1913. In 1938, the output per capita of Estonia and Latvia surpassed the prewar level by up to 20%, but the total output of Latvia did