Harvests and business cycles in nineteenth-century America

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1675-1727

  Davis, Joseph H ^a   Hanes, Christopher ^a   Rhode, Paul W ^a  

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EID: 72449203120     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/qjec.2009.124.4.1675     Document Type: Article

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