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Boston University - Department of Economics, Boston University - Department of Political Science and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

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Organizational and Economic Obstacles to Automation: A Cautionary Tale from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

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Organizational and Economic Obstacles to Automation: A Cautionary Tale from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 28 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2023

James Feigenbaum and Daniel P. Gross

Boston University - Department of Economics and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business

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Organizational and Economic Obstacles to Automation: A Cautionary Tale from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

NBER Working Paper No. w29580

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 20 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2023

James Feigenbaum and Daniel P. Gross

Boston University - Department of Economics and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business

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After the Burning: The Economic Effects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

NBER Working Paper No. w28985

Number of pages: 107 Posted: 05 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2023

Alex Albright, Jeremy Cook, James Feigenbaum, Laura Kincaide, Jason Long and Nathan Nunn

Harvard University, Wheaton College, Boston University - Department of Economics, Harvard University, Wheaton College and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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Examining the Role of Training Data for Supervised Methods of Automated Record Linkage: Lessons for Best Practice in Economic History

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Dec 2023

James Feigenbaum, Jonas Helgertz and Joseph Price

Boston University - Department of Economics, Lund University - Department of Economic History and Brigham Young University

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From the Bargaining Table to the Ballot Box: Political Effects of Right to Work Laws

NBER Working Paper No. w24259

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 29 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2023

James Feigenbaum, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Vanessa Williamson

Boston University - Department of Economics, Columbia University - School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA) and Brookings Institution

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Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman's March, 1850-1920

NBER Working Paper No. w25392

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 26 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 20 May 2023

James Feigenbaum, James Lee and Filippo Mezzanotti

Boston University - Department of Economics, Cornerstone Research, Inc. and Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance

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How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities

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How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities

NBER Working Paper No. w27480

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 04 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2023

Philipp Ager, James Feigenbaum, Casper Worm Hansen, Casper Worm Hansen and Hui Ren Tan

University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, University of CopenhagenUniversity of Copenhagen - Department of Economics and National University of Singapore (NUS)

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How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in Us Cities

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14949

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 29 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2020

Philipp Ager, James Feigenbaum, Casper Worm Hansen, Casper Worm Hansen and Hui Ren Tan

University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, University of CopenhagenUniversity of Copenhagen - Department of Economics and National University of Singapore (NUS)

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Automated Linking of Historical Data

NBER Working Paper No. w25825

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 13 May 2019 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2023

Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, Katherine Eriksson, James Feigenbaum and Santiago Pérez

Stanford University - Department of Economics, Princeton University, University of California, Davis, Boston University - Department of Economics and University of California, Davis

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Why Does Education Increase Voting? Evidence from Boston’s Charter Schools

NBER Working Paper No. w29308

Number of pages: 96 Posted: 27 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2023

Sarah Cohodes and James Feigenbaum

Columbia University - Teachers' College and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Regional and Racial Inequality in Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1900-1948

NBER Working Paper No. w25345

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022

James Feigenbaum, Christopher Muller and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Boston University - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley and University of Minnesota - Minneapolis

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The Return to Education in the Mid-20th Century: Evidence from Twins

NBER Working Paper No. w26407

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 30 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2023

James Feigenbaum and Hui Ren Tan

Boston University - Department of Economics and National University of Singapore (NUS)

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When Coercive Economies Fail: The Political Economy of the US South After the Boll Weevil

NBER Working Paper No. w27161

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 May 2020 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2022

James Feigenbaum, Soumyajit Mazumder and Cory B. Smith

Boston University - Department of Economics, Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Government and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Who Becomes a Member of Congress? Evidence From De-Anonymized Census Data

NBER Working Paper No. w26156

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2023

Daniel M. Thompson, James Feigenbaum, Andrew Hall and Jesse Yoder

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Political Science, Boston University - Department of Economics, Stanford University and Stanford University

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Inequality and the Safety Net Throughout the Income Distribution, 1929-1940

NBER Working Paper No. w27069

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 05 May 2020 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2022

James Feigenbaum, Price V. Fishback and Keoka Grayson

Boston University - Department of Economics, University of Arizona and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Immigration Restrictions and Natives' Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from the 1920s US Quota Acts

NBER Working Paper No. w34775

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 03 Feb 2026

James Feigenbaum, Yi-Ju Hung, Marco Tabellini and Monia Tomasella

Boston University - Department of Economics, National Chung Cheng University - Department of Economics, Harvard Business School and Stanford University

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Boston University - Department of Economics

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Immigration Restrictions and Natives' Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from the 1920s US Quota Acts

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