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The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains

Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In the late nineteenth century, the North American bison was brought to the brink of extinction in just over a decade …

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The Evolution of Black-White Differences in Occupational Mobility Across Post-Civil War America

Durlauf, Steven N.; Kim, Gueyon; Lee, Dohyeon; Song, Xi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies long-run differences in intergenerational occupational mobility between Black and White Americans. Combining data from linked historical censuses and contemporary large-scale surveys, we provide a comprehensive set of mobility measures based on Markov chains that trace the...

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Tasks and Black-white Inequality over the Long Twentieth Century

Gray, Rowena; O'Keefe, Siobhan M.; Quincy, Sarah; Ward, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We present new evidence on the long-run trend of occupational task content by race in the United States, 1900-2021. Black workers began the transition to better paid, cognitive-intensive modern jobs at least a generation after white workers; substantial convergence only occurred from 1960...

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Wage Inequality in American Manufacturing, 1820-1940 : New Evidence

Atack, Jeremy; Margo, Robert A.; Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The consensus view among economic historians is that wage inequality in American manufacturing followed an inverted-U path from the early nineteenth century until just before World War Two. The previous literature, however, has been unable to fully document this path over time, or fully assess...

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The Confederate Diaspora

Bazzi, Samuel; Ferrara, Andreas; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows how white migration out of the postbellum South diffused and entrenched Confederate culture across the United States at a critical juncture of westward expansion and postwar reconciliation. These migrants laid the groundwork for Confederate symbols and racial norms to become...

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Homeward Bound : How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...

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Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development : Evidence from Historical Treaties

Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with … Indigenous lands. However, treaties were not negotiated everywhere, including in regions subsequently settled by Europeans …, and state commitments to Indigenous nations. We study how these legal institutions have shaped the path of economic …

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Traumatic Financial Experiences and Persistent Changes in Financial Behavior : Evidence from the Freedman's Savings Bank

Arthi, Vellore; Richardson, Gary; Van Orden, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The failure of the Freedman's Savings Bank (FSB), one of the only Black-serving banks in the early post-bellum South, was an economic catastrophe and one of the great episodes of racial exploitation in post-Emancipation history. It was also most Black Americans' first experience of banking. Can...

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The Impact of Violence during the Mexican Revolution on Migration to the United States

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Kosack, Edward; Ward, Zachary - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The number of individuals forcibly displaced by conflicts has been rising in the past few decades. However, we know little about the dynamics--magnitude, timing, and persistence--of conflict-induced migration in the short run. We use novel high-frequency data to estimate the dynamic migration...

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Internal Migration in the United States : Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850-1940

Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

I study the internal migration of native-born white men in the United States using linked census data covering all possible 10- and 20-year periods 1850--1940. Inter-county migration rates were stable over time. Selection into migration on the basis of occupational status was also largely stable...

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