FRONT COVER -- RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC HISTORY -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- EDITORS' INTRODUCTION -- UNDERSTANDING AGING DURING THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC TRANSITION -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. WHAT IS THE RECEIVED VIEW OF THE TRANSITION? -- 3. ASSESSING THE RECEIVED VIEW -- 4. AGING IN THE COHORT-LEVEL DATA -- 5. HOW LONG-REACHING COULD BE THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHILDHOOD REGIME? -- 6. CONCLUSIONS, CAVEATS, AND FUTURE RESEARCH -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX: DATA SOURCES -- ESTIMATING FRENCH REGIONAL INCOME: DEPARTMENTAL PER CAPITA GROSS VALUE ADDED, 1872-1911 -- INTRODUCTION -- ESTIMATING FRENCH DEPARTMENTAL GVA -- DISCUSSION OF GVA ESTIMATES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- IMPROVE AND SIT: THE SURRENDERING OF LAND AT RENTS BELOW MARGINAL PRODUCT IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY VALENCIA, SPAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT HAPPENED ON THE HUERTA? -- WHY DID IT HAPPEN? -- HOW LONG HAD IT BEEN HAPPENING? -- ONE CUSTOM, TWO KINDS OF RENTS -- A BRIEF LOOK AT THE IRISH TENANT RIGHT AND THE MAUVAIS GRÉ -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- PASSAGE OF THE MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACTS AND EARNINGS ACTS IN THE UNITED STATES: 1850 TO 1920 -- INTRODUCTION -- SOME ECONOMICS OF CHANGES IN WOMEN'S ECONOMIC RIGHTS -- PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINATION OF WOMEN'S ECONOMIC RIGHTS ACT PASSAGE -- DATES OF STATES' PASSAGE OF ACTS -- INSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT OF ACT PASSAGE -- TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF ACT PASSAGE -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A: STATE-BY-STATE DISCUSSION OF MWPA AND EA ENACTMENT DATES -- APPENDIX B: PUBLISHED DATE LISTS -- APPENDIX C -- NEW STATE-LEVEL ESTIMATES OF PERSONAL INCOME IN THE UNITED STATES, 1880-1910 -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGY -- DATA SOURCES AND CALCULATIONS -- REVISED 1880 AND 1900 FIGURES.

NEW 1890 AND 1910 ESTIMATES -- DISCUSSION OF ASSUMPTIONS -- OUTPUT-BASED ESTIMATES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- EXPORTS FROM THE COLONIES AND STATES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC REGION 1720-1800 -- INTRODUCTION -- MEASURING COMMODITY EXPORTS -- THE BEHAVIOR OF COMMODITY EXPORTS FROM THE MID ATLANTIC 1720-1800 -- EXPORTS OF SERVICES -- TERMS OF TRADE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX.