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Frontier history and gender norms in the United States
Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - 2024
This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land...
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Explaining gender differences in migrant sorting : evidence from Canada-US migration
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Lepistö, Miko; Minns, Chris - 2023
Using newly digitized Canada-Vermont border crossing records from the early twentieth century, this paper identifies key factors that may explain differences in how female and male migrants sort by human capital across destinations. Earnings maximization largely explains sorting patterns among...
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Who married, (to) whom, and where? : trends in marriage in the United States, 1850-1940
Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, Marco Daniele; Salisbury, Laura - 2020
We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of...
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Towards a reparative welfare state
Klein, Elise - In: New political economy 28 (2023) 1, pp. 126-141
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The dynamics and determinants of slave prices in an urban setting : Santiago de Chile, c. 1773-1822
Cussen, Celia; Llorca-Jaña, Manuel; Droller, Federico - In: Revista de historia económica 34 (2016) 3, pp. 449-477
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Not Killing Me Softly : African American Women, Slave Revolts, and Historical Constructions of Racialized Gender
Hall, Rebecca - 2011
slavery …
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Manumission in Nineteenth Century Virginia
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010
productive slaves faced more attractive labor market opportunities outside slavery, which elicited greater effort within slavery … in order to buy their way out of slavery. Further, this paper addresses three important and two emergent literatures: the … economics of slavery; the economics of stature; and the economics of complexion. The results reveal that height, complexion, and …
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Manumission in nineteenth century Virginia
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010
, more productive slaves faced more attractive labor market opportunities outside slavery, which elicited greater effort … within slavery in order to buy their way out of slavery. Further, this paper addresses three important and two emergent … literatures: the economics of slavery; the economics of stature; and the economics of complexion. The results reveal that height …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932499
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Manumission in nineteenth-century Virginia
Bodenhorn, Howard - In: Cliometrica : journal of historical economics and … 5 (2011) 2, pp. 145-164
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130119
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Manumission in Nineteenth Century Virginia
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010
productive slaves faced more attractive labor market opportunities outside slavery, which elicited greater effort within slavery … in order to buy their way out of slavery. Further, this paper addresses three important and two emergent literatures: the … economics of slavery; the economics of stature; and the economics of complexion. The results reveal that height, complexion, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462948