Ager, Philipp; BrŸckner, Markus; Herz, Benedikt - European Historical Economics Society - EHES - 2014
In the beginning of the 1890s, counties located in the Cotton Belt of the American South were hit by an agricultural plague, the boll weevil, that adversely affected cotton production and hence the demand for labor. We use variation in the incidence of the boll weevil multiplied with countiesÕ...