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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224929
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269990
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this …
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This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of …
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resources at destination to meet the parents' bride price expectations and marry at home. We also highlight that these migration … as increasing premarital migration. …
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According to western observers, slavery was almost universal in Africa by the end of the slave trade era. I investigate … the extent to which the international slave trades transformed the institutions of slavery in Africa. I use newly … catchment zones adopted slavery to defend against further enslavement. More generally, I find that the international slave …
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This paper documents the emergence of a race gap in incarceration after the abolition of slavery in the U.S. Counties …
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tschechische Zuckerindustrie mit sich. Durch eine erfolgreiche Restrukturierung sollte die Konkurrenzfähigkeit der Unternehmen in … der Marktwirtschaft erreicht werden. Die Zuckerindustrie muss sich zudem auf den bevorstehenden EU-Beitritt vorbereiten … tschechische Zuckerindustrie und ihre Existenz, genauso wie die der EU, auch in Zukunft von den Protektionsmaßnahmen der …
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In this paper, we estimate the effects of mandatory military service by exploiting the post-cold war decrease in the need for soldiers causing a substantial number of potential conscripts not to be drafted into the German military. Specifically, using previously unavailable information on degree...
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