Gouda, Moamen; Rigterink, Anouk S. - 2024
This study investigates the long-term relationship between slavery and violent crime in the USA. Although qualitative …-level data, we find that the percentage of slaves in the population in 1860 is linked with violent crime in 2000. This result is … specific to violent crime, robust to instrumenting for slavery and varying the approach to missing crime data, and not driven …