Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298011 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
I4R Discussion Paper Series No. 130
Publisher: 
Institute for Replication (I4R), s.l.
Abstract: 
Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) find that labor demand shocks in 19th-century Britain had an impact on master and servant prosecutions, as breaking an employee contract was a criminal offense until 1875. We first reproduce all regression tables in Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) and then test for robustness by using a triple difference where we compare the impact of labor demand shocks on master and servant prosecutions relative to other prosecutions, changing the functional form of key variables, including region*year interactive fixed effects, and conducting influential analysis. We find that the results are sensitive to the triple difference specification and to region*year FEs, and otherwise robust. Overall, we find the results are robust in 50% of the checks we ran, and the t/z scores were on average 74% as large as the original study.
Subjects: 
Labor Law
Contract Law
Labor Contracts
Labor Market Institutions
Economic History
JEL: 
J31
J41
K12
K31
N33
N43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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