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

-of-Africa Migration. The roots of income inequality within the US population provide supporting evidence for the hypothesis. It suggests …

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

We use administrative data from Washington State to perform a large-scale analysis of the impact of family formation on …

This paper analyzes the impact of paid family leave (PFL) policies in California, New Jersey, and New York on the labor … conditions or limitations who experience a hospitalization or surgery report "leaving a job to care for home or family" in the …

To engage with the large literature on the economic effects of slavery, we use antebellum census data to test for … free labor to working in a slave society. This evidence of systemically lower economic performance in slavery-legal areas …

developmental systems to illustrate the multilayered aspects of harm from the legacy of slavery and racism. Our curation of …