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Shifts in agrarian entrepreneurship in mid-Victorian England and Wales
This paper provides the first full-population analysis of changes in the entrepreneurial status of farmers during the mid-nineteenth century: between being employers or sole proprietors with no workforce. Using a unique dataset of all farmers and workforces in the 1851-81 English
and Welsh censuses, this paper explores the effects of changes in agriculture on entrepreneur choices. A short 'Golden Age' was followed by increasing technical changes and the onset of agricultural depression causing an important shift in agricultural entrepreneurial activity: initially the
employer proportion increased slowly, but from the 1860s employers reduced labour and more worked as sole proprietors. Our findings show that farmers were adaptable and resilient to change through shifts in entrepre- neurial status and/or greater involvement of the family, supporting the conclusions
of earlier researchers who took an optimistic interpretation of flexibility and robustness of farmers. We also show the adaptations to be highly geographically variegated, depending on land quality, distance to local markets, and rail lines.
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Continuity and Change: From wool to cloth: the triumph of the Suffolk clothier
Nicholas R. Amor, From wool to cloth: the triumph of the Suffolk clothier (Bungay: RefineCatch Ltd, 2016). Pages 308, including figures. £20 hardback.
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In the shadow of coal: How large-scale industries contributed to present-day regional differences in personality and well-being
Recent research has identified regional variation of personality traits within countries but we know little about the underlying drivers of this variation. We propose that the Industrial Revolution, as a key era in the history of industrialized nations, has led to a persistent clustering of well-being outcomes and personality traits associated with psychological adversity via processes of selective migration and socialization. Analyzing data from England and Wales, we examine relationships between the historical employment share in large-scale coal-based industries (coal mining and steam-powered manufacturing industries that used this coal as fuel for their steam engines) and today's regional variation in personality and well-being. Even after controlling for possible historical confounds (historical energy supply, education, wealth, geology, climate, population density), we find that the historical local dominance of large-scale coal-based industries predicts today's markers of psychological adversity (lower Conscientiousness [and order facet scores], higher Neuroticism [and anxiety and depression facet scores], lower activity [an Extraversion facet], and lower life satisfaction and life expectancy). An instrumental variable analysis, using the historical location of coalfields, supports the causal assumption behind these effects (with the exception of life satisfaction). Further analyses focusing on mechanisms hint at the roles of selective migration and persisting economic hardship. Finally, a robustness check in the U.S. replicates the effect of the historical concentration of large-scale industries on today's levels of psychological adversity. Taken together, the results show how today's regional patterns of personality and well-being may have their roots in major societal changes underway decades or centuries earlier.
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General and Specific Risk and Protective Factors for Cigarette and Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) Use
Electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS or e-cigarette) use is at least as common as cigarette use among today’s young adults. However, most prevention approaches are based on risk and protective factors (RPFs) that were identified with respect to cigarette use alone. To the extent that RPFs differ for cigarette and ENDS use, tailored approaches are needed to reduce the burden of nicotine use. In the current study, we examined both shared general RPFs and substance-specific RPFs across a developmental period spanning early adolescence to young adulthood, with the goal of identifying upstream preventive intervention targets for cigarette and ENDS use. The current study used data from the Community Youth Development Study (
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= 4407) collected at 7 time points from early adolescence (age 12) through young adulthood (age 26). Using longitudinal structural equation modeling, we examined the contributions of adolescent and young adult RPFs to young adult cigarette and ENDS use. We examined general protective factors (e.g., family bonding and peer opportunities for prosocial involvement), cigarette-specific risk (e.g., friends’ cigarette use and permissive community norms), and peer polysubstance use. General protective factors assessed in early adolescence had an indirect association with young adult cigarette and ENDS use, mediated through later RPFs. Whereas both cigarette-specific RPFs and peer polysubstance use predicted ENDS use in young adulthood, only cigarette-specific RPFs were related to cigarette use in young adulthood. Our findings suggest that, although addressing known RPFs holds value for preventing ENDS use, additional prevention targets should also be considered. Early prevention approaches might seek to strengthen protective factors, whereas later prevention approaches might target cigarette beliefs for cigarette use and peer polysubstance use for ENDS use.
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