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Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020

for migrants. By 1990, the effect of sugar is replaced by that of slavery and the black share, consistent with the spread …We empirically assess the effect of historical slavery on the African American family structure. Our hypothesis is that … female single headship among blacks is more likely to emerge in association not with slavery per se, but with slavery in …

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Early-modern globalization and the extent of indigenous agency: Trade, commodities, and ecology

Carlos, Ann M.; Green, Erik; Links, Calumet; Redish, Angela - 2024

This paper examines the responses of Indigenous nations and European companies to new trading opportunities: Cree nations and the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), and Khoe nations and the Dutch East India Company (VOC). This case study is important because of the disparate outcomes: within a few...

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What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature

Doran, Áine; Colvin, Christopher L.; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2023

What are the insights from historical pandemics for policymaking today? We carry out a systematic review of the literature on the impact of pandemics that occurred since the Industrial Revolution and prior to Covid-19. Our literature searches were conducted between June 2020 and September 2023,...

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Songlines

Kampanelis, Sotiris; Elizalde, Aldo; Ioannides, Yannis M. - 2023

This paper examines the long-term economic impacts of the adoption of local knowledge during European colonisation. We use the case of Australia, where Aboriginal knowledge of the landscape was integral to colonial exploration and settlement. To quantify the effects of this knowledge, we...

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The long-term determinants of female HIV infection in Africa: The slave trade, polygyny, and sexual behavior

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2015

We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women, with a focus on family structure and sexual behavior as shaped by the demographic shock following the transatlantic slave trade. First we show that, in clusters where polygyny...

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Escaping the Holocaust: Human and health capital of refugees to the United States, 1940-42

Blum, Matthias; Rei, Claudia - 2015

show this episode of European migration displays well-known features of migrant self-selection: early migrants were taller … than late migrants; a large migrant stock reduces migrant selectivity; and economic barriers to migration apply. Our …

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Age heaping and numeracy: Looking behind the curtain

Blum, Matthias; Krauss, Karl-Peter - 2017

Age heaping-based numeracy indicators have served as valuable tools to derive basic human capital estimates, especially for periods where other indicators are unavailable. However, the accuracy of individual age statements usually remains unknown, and due to the lack of precise information it...

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Across the sea to Ireland: Return Atlantic migration before the First World War

Fernihough, Alan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019

Are return migrants 'losers' who fail to adapt to the challenges of the host economy, and thereby exacerbate the brain drain linked to emigration? Or are they 'winners' whose return enhances the human and physical capital of the home country? These questions are the subject of a burgeoning...

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Strangers and foreigners: Trust and attitudes toward citizenship

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...

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Rooted to the soil: The impact of social housing on population in Ireland since 1911

De Bromhead, Alan; Lyons, Ronan C. - 2021

How does housing policy influence the distribution of population? We examine the impact of the world's first large-scale rural public housing scheme on the long-term dynamics of rural population, specifically the case of Ireland's Labourers Acts. We link detailed data on the location of over...

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