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Bitter sugar : slavery and the black family

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020

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Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020

for migrants. By 1990, the effect of sugar is replaced by that of slavery and the black share, consistent with the spread …We empirically assess the effect of historical slavery on the African American family structure. Our hypothesis is that … female single headship among blacks is more likely to emerge in association not with slavery per se, but with slavery in …

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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022

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Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...

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Social Networks and (Political) Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration

Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zenou, Yves - 2022

This paper investigates the causal pathways through which ethnic social networks influence individual naturalization. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information on the exact residence of newly arrived immigrants in New York City. This allows us to define networks with a...

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