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One Giant Leap : Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains

Hornbeck, Richard; Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We re-characterize American slavery as inefficient, whereby emancipation generated substantial aggregate economic gains …

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Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910

Logan, Trevon D. - 2008

This is the first paper to document the effect of health on the migration propensities of African Americans in the … literacy and health on the migration propensities of African Americans from 1870 to 1910. I find that literacy and health … shocks were strong predictors of migration and the stock of health was not. There were differential selection propensities …

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Her Property Transactions : White Women and the Frequency of Female Ownership in the Antebellum Era

Wishart, Benton; Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The traditional historical narrative claims that White women were rarely involved in market transactions for enslaved people in the antebellum United States. Using transaction records, notary statements, and runaway advertisements, we provide the first quantitative estimates of the extent of...

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Whitelashing : Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence

Logan, Trevon D. - 2019

This paper provides the first evidence of the effect of tax policy on the likelihood of violent attacks against black politicians. I find a strong positive effect of local tax revenue on subsequent violence against black politicians. A dollar increase in per capita county taxes increases the...

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Do Black Politicians Matter?

Logan, Trevon D. - 2018

This paper exploits the history of Reconstruction after the American Civil War to estimate the causal effect of politician race on public finance. I overcome the endogeneity between electoral preferences and black representation using the number of free blacks in the antebellum era (1860) as an...

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Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching

Cook, Lisa D. - 2017

The literature on ethnic fractionalization and conflict has not been extended to the American past. In particular, the empirical relationship between racial residential segregation and lynching is unknown. The existing economic, social, and political theories of lynching contain hypotheses about...

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Distinctively Black Names in the American Past

Cook, Lisa D. - 2013

We document the existence of a distinctive national naming pattern for African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We use census records to identify a set of high-frequency names among African Americans that were unlikely to be held by whites. We confirm the...

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