first decades of the "Great Migration" (1910-1930). We study both whites and blacks and intra- and inter-regional migration …. While there is some evidence of positive selection, the degree of selection was small and participation in migration was …

The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most … important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 … census manuscripts to address three interconnected questions: To what extent was there selection into migration? How large …

stigma associated with women's work, which Goldin (1977) suggested could be traced to cultural norms rooted in slavery. In …

The Great Migration from the US South is a prominent theme in economic history research not only because it was a prime … example of large scale internal migration, but also because it had far-reaching ramifications for American economic, social … migrants' outcomes, and then offers a more speculative interpretation of how the Great Migration fostered the advancement of …