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Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940
Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, Daniele; Salisbury, Laura; … - 2021
We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of...
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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial … gap. The excludability of slavery is preliminarily established by instrumenting it with the share of disembarked slaves … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel …
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The Long Shadow of Slavery : The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Law-Making
Bellani, Luna - 2020
This paper documents the persistence of the Southern slave owning elite in political power after the end of the American Civil War. We draw on a database of Texan state legislators between 1860 and 1900 and link them to their or their ancestors' slaveholdings in 1860. We then show that former...
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The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen : Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855-1860
Pritchett, Jonathan B.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2021
Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze...
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Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926–2019 : Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?
Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian Till; 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...
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The Political Economy of Propaganda : Evidence from Us Newspapers
Ottinger, Sebastian; Winkler, Max - 2022
We study the impact of the first American party committed to redistribution from rich to poor on anti-Black media content in the 1890s. The Populist Party sought support among poor farmers, regardless of race, providing the segregationist Democratic establishment in the South with an incentive...
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Race V. Suffrage : The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...
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The Economic Progress of American Jewry : From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
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Institutional Discrimination and Assimilation : Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Chen, Shuo - 2020
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned Chinese immigration and institutionalized discrimination against Chinese in U.S. society. This study examines the impact of institutional discrimination on the assimilation of Chinese by exploiting the passage of the Act and the state-level variation in...
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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...
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