Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Prefatory Note xiii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. I. The National Product
6. 2. New Estimates of Gross National Product, Canada, 1870-1926: Some Implications for Canadian Development 9
7. 3. Measuring the Transaction Sector in the American Economy, 1870-1970 95
8. II. Capital and Wealth
9. 4. The United States Capital Stock in the Nineteenth Century 165
10. 5. Choices, Rents, and Luck: Economic Mobility of Nineteenth-Century Utah Households 215
11. 6. Inheritance on the Maturing Frontier: Butler County, Ohio, 1803-1865 261
12. III. Population and Labor Force
13. 7. Rudimentary Contraceptive Methods and the American Transition to Marital Fertility Control, 1855-1915 307
14. 8. New Results on the Decline in Household Fertility in the United States from 1750 to 1900 391
15. 9. Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings 439
16. 10. The Female Labor Force and American Economic Growth, 1890-1980 557
17. 11. Population and Labor in the British Caribbean in the Early Nineteenth Century 605
18. 12. Revised Estimates of the United States Workforce, 1800-1860 641
19. IV. Sectoral Studies
20. 13. Productivity Growth in Manufacturing during Early Industrialization: Evidence from the American Northeast, 1820-1860 679
21. 14. Output and Productivity in Canadian Agriculture, 1870-71 to 1926-27 737
22. 15. Growth and Productivity Change in the Canadian Railway Sector, 1871-1926 779
23. 16. Long-Term Trends in State and Local Finance: Sources and Uses of Funds in North Carolina, 1800-1977 819
24. Contributors 869
25. Author Index 873
26. Subject Index 879