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Who married, (to) whom, and where? : trends in marriage in the United States, 1850-1940
Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, Marco Daniele; Salisbury, Laura - 2020
socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands. This socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305893
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COVID-19, race, and redlining
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020
Discussion on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans has been at center stage since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States. To present day, however, lack of race-disaggregated individual data has prevented a rigorous assessment of the extent of this phenomenon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249344
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The economic progress of American Jewry : from 18th century merchants to 21st century professionals
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … compared to 20 percent of white non-Jewish men were in professional occupations. Among working women in 2000, 51 percent of the … Jewish women and 28 percent of non-Jewish white women were in professional jobs. Differences by gender were smaller than …
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Reversing fortunes of German regions, 1926-2019 : boon and bane of early industrialization?
Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian; Franke, Richard - 2022
This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany's economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany, we establish that nearly half of them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332122
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Canary in a coal mine : infant mortality, property values, and tradeoffs associated with mid-20th century air pollution
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2016
Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify those who are harmed and those who benefit from them. To overcome this challenge, our paper uses a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457393
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Short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification : evidence from the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid
Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2017
employment, rural farm population, and rural property values, but there was little impact on the local non-agriculture economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785614
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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
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Rainfall risk and fertility : evidence from farm settlements during the American demographic transition
Grimm, Michael - 2016
Fertility is a main driver and outcome of long-term growth. Yet, fertility may not only interact with the level of income but also with its volatility. In pre-modern economies where formal social security was largely absent, fertility decisions may also have been made in view of insuring income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580904
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The slaughter of the bison and reversal of fortunes on the Great Plains
Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - 2022
In the late nineteenth century, the North American bison was brought to the brink of extinction in just over a decade. We demonstrate that the loss of the bison had immediate, negative consequences for the Native Americans who relied on them and ultimately resulted in a permanent reversal of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013346952
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The impact of violence during the Mexican Revolution on migration to the United States
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Kosack, Edward; Ward, Zachary - 2023
women and children. We show that violence was the main treatment channel, with variation in the intensity and nature of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325870