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.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census …
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The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by … enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non …'s socioeconomic attainment. The propensity for Census enumerators to identify Mexican Americans as white varied enormously across U …
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A combination of changing migration patterns and US immigration restrictions acted to shift the male-female balance in many ethnic groups in the early 20th Century. I use this variation to study the consequences of changing sex ratios for the children of immigrants. Immigrant sex ratios affected...
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used in the federal census and in the published vital statistics. The second part looks at these two dimensions of …
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Hispanic ethnicity question provide an upper bound. Results from the Census Bureau's National Content test suggest that the …
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) by the Nazis during World War II and long-run economic and political outcomes within Russia. Cities that experienced the … it induced in the social structure, in particular the size of the middle class, across different regions of Russia …
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The recent digitization of complete count census data is an extraordinary opportunity for social scientists to create … large longitudinal datasets by linking individuals from one census to another or from other sources to the census. We …
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How high is unemployment? How low is labor force participation? Is obesity more prevalent among men? How large are household expenditures? We study the sources of the relevant official statistics--the Current Population Survey (CPS), the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and...
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analyses. We address this by introducing a new dataset linking patent inventors to survey, census, and administrative microdata … at the U.S. Census Bureau. We use this data to provide a first look at the demographic characteristics, employer …
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