Journal of economic history Vol. 69, No. 1 march 2009

Valerie A. Ramey
Time spent in homeproduction in the twentieth-century United States: new estimates from old data

Mark Dincecco
Fiscal centralization, limited government, and public revenues in Europe, 1650-1913

Lee J. Alston, Shannan Mattiace, and Tomas Nonnenmacher
COercion, culture, and contracts: labor and debt on henequen haciendas in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1915

Kris james Mitchener, and Mari Ohnuki
Institutions, competition, and capital market integration in Japan

Christiana Stoddard
Why did education become publicly funded? evidence from the nineteenth-century growth of public primary schooling in the United States

Dan Bogart
Nationalizations and the development oftransport systems: cross-country evidence from railroad networks 1860-1880

James I. Stewart
Economic opportunity or hardship? the causes of geographic mobility on the agricultural frontier, 1860-1880

Latika Chaudhary
Determinats of primary schooling in British India