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The Economics of African American Slavery : The Cliometrics Debate
Sutch, Richard C. - 2018
This working paper explores the significant contributions to the history of African-American slavery made by the … explicit use of economic theory and quantitative methods. American slavery of the late antebellum period [1840-1860] was one of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480849
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Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy
Olmstead, Alan L. - 2008
The Cliometrics literature on slave efficiency has generally focused on static questions. We take a decidedly more dynamic approach. Drawing on the records of 142 plantations with 509 crops years, we show that the average daily cotton picking rate increased about four-fold between 1801 and 1862....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464504
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464610
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Forging a New Identity : The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen
Costa, Dora L. - 2004
By the end of the Civil War, 186,017 black men had fought for the Union Army and roughly three-quarters of these men were former slaves. Because most of the black soldiers who served were illiterate farm workers, the war exposed them to a much broader world. The war experience of these men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467674
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Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2002
How much do sins visited upon one generation harm that generation's future sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters? I study this question by comparing outcomes for former slaves and their children and grandchildren to outcomes for free blacks (pre-1865), and their children and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469482
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Up from Slavery? African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility Since 1880
Collins, William J. - 2017
We document the intergenerational mobility of black and white American men from 1880 through 2000 by building new datasets to study the late 19th and early 20th century and combining them with modern data to cover the mid- to late 20th century. We find large disparities in intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455286
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Race and the Value of Owner-Occupied Housing, 1940-1990
Collins, William J. - 2000
The racial gap in the value of owner occupied housing has narrowed substantially since 1940, but this narrowing has not been even over time or across space. The 1970s stand out as an unusual decade in which the value gap did not narrow despite continued convergence in the observed...
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Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990
Collins, William J. - 1999
The historical evolution of racial differences in income in the 20th century United States has been examined intensively by economists, but the evolution of racial differences in wealth has been examined far less. This paper uses IPUMS data to study trends in racial differences in home ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471506
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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites
Cameron, Stephen V. - 1999
This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471541
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Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men : 1910-1990
Fairlie, Robert W. - 1999
We examine trends in self-employment among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata. Self-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970. For white men, we find that the decline was due to declining rates within industries, but was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471606