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Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the … county matter for local economic development and the channels through which the cultural, institutional, and educational … legacy of the country of origin affects economic outcomes in the US. Our results show that the evolution of the country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288193
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The Great Migration and educational opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2022
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete-count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342004
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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan - 2023
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296723
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A rural health supplement to the hookworm intervention in the American South
Fox, Jonathan; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018
This project re-investigates the hookworm eradication efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation's Sanitary Commission (RSC) in the American South during the Progressive Era. The RSC worked to eradicate hookworm across 11 southern states between 1911 and 1915, efforts that have been linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011811996
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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the … county matter for local economic development and the channels through which the cultural, institutional, and educational … legacy of the country of origin affects economic outcomes in the US. Our results show that the evolution of the country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528617
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The Great Migration and educational opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2022
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete-count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013278874
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A rural health supplement to the hookworm intervention in the American South
Fox, Jonathan; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018
This project re-investigates the hookworm eradication efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation's Sanitary Commission (RSC) in the American South during the Progressive Era. The RSC worked to eradicate hookworm across 11 southern states between 1911 and 1915, efforts that have been linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011811921
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The Great Migration and educational opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2023
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229408
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The Pill and the College Attainment of American Women and Men
Hock, Heinrich - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 2007
This paper considers the educational consequences of the increased ability of young women to delay childbearing as a result of the birth control pill. In order to identify the effects of the pill, I utilize quasi-experimental variation in U.S. state laws governing access to contraception among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273048
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Twenty years later and the socialist heritage is still kicking: The case of Russia
Ofer, Gur - 2010
Only recently, 20 years after transition to a market system, has Russia regained a similar production level it had achieved on the eve of transition in 1991. This may sound surprising, given its low productivity under central planning which dropped even lower during the last decades, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280143