Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain

Suresh Naidu; Noam Yuchtman (2013) · American Economic Review

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
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from tranche50_report import report
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Suresh Naidu; Noam Yuchtman (2013). American Economic Review. Table 2.

Template assessment

The source reduced form uses coal- and iron-county price interactions and the textile employment share interacted with textile prices. These are multiple time-varying industry shocks, not an absorbing binary treatment.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.