New Estimates of Regional GDP in Spain, 1860-1930

This paper presents a new regional database on GDP in Spain for the years 1860, 1900, 1914 and 1930. Following Geary and Stark (2002), country level GDP estimates are allocated across Spanish provinces. The results are then compared with previous estimates. Further, this new evidence is used to analyze the evolution of regional inequality and convergence in the long run. According to the distribution dynamics approach suggested by Quah (1993, 1996) persistence appears as a main feature in the regional distribution of output. Therefore, in the long run no evidence of regional convergence in the Spanish economy is found.

Tenth biennial report of the Attorney-General of the state of Iowa for the term beginning January 2, 1913 and ending December 31, 1914.

This report includes business transacted and official opinions by the Iowa Attorney General during the years 1913 and 1914.

Primer Congrès Català de Medicina del Treball : programa : Barcelona, 4-7 abril 1984

El document consisteix en el programa d'aquest Primer Congrès Català de Medicina del Treball i és una crida a la participació de tots aquells que hi tinguin alguna cosa a aportar.

I-380 dedication : Boyson Road to Iowa 101, August 14, 1984.

Program from the dedication of Boyson Road to Iowa 101 on Interstate I-380.

Agglomeration and labour productivity in Spanish industry: a long-term analysis

This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial density of economic activity and interregional differences in the productivity of industrial labour in Spain during the period 1860-1999. In the spirit of Ciccone and Hall (1996) and Ciccone (2002), we analyze the evolution of this relationship over the long term in Spain. Using data on the period 1860-1999 we show the existence of an agglomeration effect linking the density of economic activity with labour productivity in the industry. This effect was present since the beginning of the industrialization process in the middle of the 19th century but has been decreasing over time. The estimated elasticity of labour productivity with respect to employment density was close to 8% in the subperiod 1860-1900, reduces to a value of around 7% in the subperiod 1914-1930, to 4% in the subperiod 1965-1979 and becomes insignificant in the final subperiod 1985-1999. At the end of the period analyzed there is no evidence of the existence of net agglomeration effects in the industry. This result could be explained by an important increase in the congestion effects in large industrial metropolitan areas that would have compensated the centripetal or agglomeration forces at work. Furthermore, this result is also consistent with the evidence of a dispersion of industrial activity in Spain during the last decades.

Childhood cancer in Switzerland: mortality from 1951 to 1984.

Cancer mortality among children in Switzerland was analysed using (1) age-specific and age-standardized (0-14) rates from 1951 to 1984 and (2) comparison of observed numbers of deaths over the period 1960-1984 with expected one obtained by application of age-specific rates for the period 1951-1959 to the population structure of subsequent 5-year calendar periods. Certified mortality fell about 60% for leukaemias, 21% for lymphomas, 66% for Wilms' tumours, 40% for bone sarcomas and 30% for other and unspecified sites. Thus, the overall decline in childhood cancer mortality in Switzerland was around 45%, slightly more marked in females (-48%) than in males (-42%), and more pronounced in younger children (over 50% before age 5). This corresponds to an absolute number of about 50 deaths from childhood cancer per year avoided in the early 1980s as compared with expected numbers computed on the basis of rates registered in the 1950s (30 deaths per year for leukaemias alone). The estimated total number of deaths avoided during the whole period 1960-1980 was 820 (430 leukaemias alone). Trends in childhood cancer mortality persisted steadily downwards in the early 1980s, suggesting that further progress is being achieved in the treatment of these neoplasms.

Listériose : étude cas témoins en Suisse romande : hiver 1984/85

Le but de cette étude était - d'établir un instrument d'enquête utilisable en cas d'épidémie; - de reconnaître une éventuelle reprise de l'épidémie observée l'hiver précédent, et dans cette hypothèse de récolter des données pour la recherche d'une source.

Traffic map, Iowa,1984.

Traffic volumes represented on this map are average volumes between major traffic generators: highway junctions, cities, recreational areas or high volume secondary roads.

Gómez Santacruz, Julio: La Meseta Superior Hispana durante la Época Antonina. Universidad de Valladolid, 1993

El conocimiento de la Meseta Superior en la Antigüedad es muy desigual y obras como la presente, que sintetizan y reúnen aspectos dispersos en multitud de publicaciones, cubren un importante hueco. Por diversas causas la investigación venía atendiendo con mayor interés las etapas de cambio histórico, los pueblos prerromanos y los primeros tiempos de la implantación romana, la crisis del siglo III y su transformación posterior, etc. Se echaba en falta una obra monotemática sobre la maduración romanizadora, que indagara en los motivos de crisis que ya en ella se intuyen, durante ese siglo falsamente "anodino", es decir, el espacio de tiempo comprendido entre los años 96-198.

Pere Bosch Gimpera y Juan Cabré. La pugna por el control de las excavaciones en San Antonio de Calaceite y el Bajo Aragón (1914-1916) y su influencia en la creación del Servei d"Investigacions Arqueològiques del IEC

En la historiografía de la investigación sobre la cultura ibérica, el poblado de San Antonio el Pobre (Calaceite) va indeleblemente unido a las intervenciones del Institut d¿Estudis Catalans (IEC) y a la figura de Pere Bosch Gimpera, sin duda el prehistoriador español de mayor prestigio hasta el final de la guerra civil. Sin embargo, es significativo que dicho conocimiento se deba más a trabajos aislados y a la recuperación de sus diarios de excavación realizada por Francisca Pallarés Salvador en 1958, que a la publicación de una serie de monografías que recogiera sus trabajos en el área entre 1914 y 1923.