Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) was one of Germany's first freelance authors to make a living by his pen under the conditions of early mass media. A tireless producer of texts in a variety of genres, from novels and novellas to newspaper…

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Anecdotal evidence suggests that uncontrolled managers let wages rise above competitive levels.
Testing this popular perception has proven difficult, however, because independent variation in the
extent of managerial discretion is needed. In this paper, we use states’ passage of anti-takeover

This paper uses aggregate birth year/calendar year level data derived
from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to estimate the effect of Social
Security wealth on the labor supply of older men in the l970s and 1980s.
The analysis focuses on…

Labor supply research has not yet produced a clear statement of the size of
the labor supply elasticity nor how it should be measured. Measurement error in
hourly wage data and the use of inappropriate identifying assumptions can account
for…

Data from Boozer & Rouse Journal of Urban Economics

This dissertation explores the ways in which medical experts conceptualized the impact of the contraceptive pill on women's psyches over the course of the 1960s. Analyzing journal articles, popular books, institutional archives, pill packages and advertisements, the project traces representations…

This dissertation investigates the relation between Mies van der Rohe and cinema. Its purpose is to elucidate, both historically and theoretically, the association between the architect Mies and the pioneers of abstract film Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling during the…

This dissertation maps the ethnographic and archaeological work of the Dutch architects Aldo van Eyck and Herman Haan between 1947 and 1967, including van Eyck's writings, editorial work, and encounter with the sub-Saharan Dogon people, and Haan's expeditions and ethnographic…