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America's settling down: How better jobs and falling immigration led to a rise in marriage, 1880–1930
Cvrcek, Tomas - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 3, pp. 335-351
affecting men. First, men's improving labor market prospects made them more attractive as marriage partners. Second, immigration …-run, as immigration declined, immigrants' descendants integrated with American society. This reduced search costs and …
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Immigration and Inequality
Card, David - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 1-21
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Longitudinal Studies of Human Growth and Health: A Review of Recent Historical Research
Inwood, Kris; Roberts, Evan - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2010
This paper reviews recent literature using stature and weight as measures of human welfare with a particular interest in cliometric or historical research. We begin with an overview of anthropometric evidence of living standards and the new but fast-growing field of anthropometric history. This...
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THE MIGRATION OF EUROPEANS TO THE UNITED STATES AT THE MIDDLE OF THE 19TH CENTURY – THE IRISH AND GERMAN WAVE
Maha, Sorin-Stefan - In: CES Working Papers 3(4) (2011) December, pp. 556-562
young American people. Unlike other states, the USA is a nation founded on waves of immigrants coming from different parts … migration of the Irish and Germans to the USA at the middle of the 19th century. They had an important contribution to the …
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America and its Immigrants: A Game of Mirrors
Portes, Alejandro - Center for Migration and Development Studies, Woodrow … - 2010
After a lapse of over half a century, the United States has again become a country of immigration. In 1990, the foreign … population, that figure is being approached fast while the impact of contemporary immigration is significant and growing.2 The … public image of contemporary immigration has been colored to a large extent by the Third World origins of most recent …
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Immigration : select documents and case records
Abbott, Edith - 1924 - Reprint.
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Lead and Mortality
Clay, Karen; Troesken, Werner; Haines, Michael - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 3, pp. 458-470
This paper examines the effect of waterborne lead exposure on infant mortality in American cities over the period 1900 to 1920. Variation across cities in water acidity and the types of service pipes, which together determined the extent of lead exposure, identifies the effects of lead on infant...
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Degraded Work, Declining Community, Rising Inequality, and the Transformation of the Protestant Ethic in America: 1870-1930
Wisman, Jon D.; Davis, Matthew - 2011
The Protestant ethic has been depicted as declining in America between 1870 and 1930, due to new affordable consumer durables and less rewarding industrial work. This article re-examines this period and finds that the Protestant ethic did not so much decline as become transformed. The work ethic...
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Inherited Trust and Growth - Comment
Muller, Daniel; Torgler, Benno; Uslaner, Eric - School of Economics and Finance, Business School - 2012
Algan and Cahuc in "Inherited Trust and Growth" (AER, 2010) argue that "inherited trust" is a key factor in explaining growth rates across countries. They derive a measure of inherited trust by linking respondents' "home countries" in the United States General Social Survey (1972-2004) and the...
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Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States since 1850: Comment
Xie, Yu; Killewald, Alexandra - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 5, pp. 2003-20
Using historical census and survey data, Long and Ferrie (2013) found a significant decline in social mobility in the United States from 1880 to 1973. We present two critiques of the Long-Ferrie study. First, the data quality of the Long-Ferrie study is more limiting than the authors...
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