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Race v. suffrage : the determinants of development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011

We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...

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Women, medieval commerce, and the education gender gap

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2013

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century, immediately following the country's Unification. We use a comprehensive newly-assembled database including 69 provinces over twenty-year sub-samples covering the 1861-1901 period. We...

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Long shadows of history : persecution in Central Europe and its labor market consequences

Myck, Michał; Bohacek, Radim - 2011

. Retrospective information collected in the SHARELIFE interview offers a unique chance to relate past and current labor market … level data with details on labor market histories is matched with information on the experiences of state oppression. On … of the dissident groups in both countries. -- labor discrimination ; persecution ; job satisfaction ; life histories …

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Family structure and the education gender gap : evidence from Italian provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2014

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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Public health efforts and the decline in urban mortality : reply to Cutler and Miller

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Rees, Daniel I. - 2019

This is a rejoinder to a comment written by Cutler and Miller on our recent paper, "Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality" (IZA DP No. 11773), which reanalyzes data used by Cutler and Miller to investigate the determinants of the urban mortality decline from 1900 to 1936. Two...

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Public health efforts and the decline in urban mortality

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Rees, Daniel I. - 2018

Using data on 25 major American cities for the period 1900-1940, we explore the effects of municipal-level public health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying interventions such as treating sewage and setting strict...

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Was the first public health campaign successful? : the tuberculosis movement and its effect on mortality

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Olivares, … - 2017

The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and supported by the sale of Christmas seals. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the...

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