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Inequality, Living Standards And Growth: Two Centuries Of Economic Development In Mexico, Ingrid Bleynat, Amilcar Challú, Paul Segal Nov 2020

Inequality, Living Standards And Growth: Two Centuries Of Economic Development In Mexico, Ingrid Bleynat, Amilcar Challú, Paul Segal

History Faculty Publications

Historical wage and incomes data are informative both as normative measures of living standards, and as indicators of patterns of economic development. We show that, given limited historical data, median incomes are most appropriate for measuring welfare and inequality, while urban unskilled wages can be used to test dualist models of development. We present a new dataset including both series in Mexico from 1800 to 2015 and find that both have historically failed to keep up with aggregate growth: per worker GDP is now over eight times higher than in the nineteenth century, while unskilled urban real wages are only …


Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Newsletter Spring 2020, Sandra L. Faulkner Apr 2020

Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Newsletter Spring 2020, Sandra L. Faulkner

Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Newsletters

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Experiences Of Teaching In Transition: The Move Online, Spring 2020, Matt Schumann Jan 2020

Experiences Of Teaching In Transition: The Move Online, Spring 2020, Matt Schumann

History Faculty Publications

Anyone who experienced the transition to online course delivery in Spring 2020 probably had an opinion on it. Twenty-nine respondents completed this 20-minute survey on technical, emotional, pedagogical, and administrative aspects of the transition, including both faculty and students. The data gathered here offers an enduring testimony of their lived experience, and may inform a variety of pedagogical research.