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Carson, Scott Alan - 2016

When traditional measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, stature and the body mass index (BMI) are now widely-accepted measures that reflect economic conditions. However, little work exists for late 19th and early 20th century women's BMIs in the US and how they varied with...

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The Economic Progress of American Jewry : From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009

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The Lasting Effects of Maternal Net Nutrition During US Economic Development

Carson, Scott A. - 2016

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Wealth of two nations : the U.S. racial wealth gap, 1860-2020

Derenoncourt, Ellora; Kim, Chi Hyun; Kuhn, Moritz; … - 2022

The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic disparities between Black and white Americans, with a white-to-Black per capita wealth ratio of 6 to 1. It is also among the most persistent. In this paper, we construct the first continuous series on white-to-Black per capita wealth ratios...

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Comment on "Historical Lynchings and the Contemporary Voting Behavior of Blacks"

Haddad, Joanne; Kattan, Lamis; Wochner, Timo - 2023 - Updated Version, June 28

Williams (2022) ties the political participation of Blacks to historical lynchings that occurred in the United States. Her findings document lower Black voter registration rates in southern counties with greater number of historical lynchings. We show that this effect is driven by four outlier...

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The Confederate Diaspora

Bazzi, Samuel; Ferrara, Andreas; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows how white migration out of the postbellum South diffused and entrenched Confederate culture across the United States at a critical juncture of westward expansion and postwar reconciliation. These migrants laid the groundwork for Confederate symbols and racial norms to become...

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Racism, Segregation, Acceptance : American Economics and Black Issues, 1890-1945

Rutherford, Malcolm - 2023

The American economics profession has a tortured relationship with the study of issues relatingto Black Americans. This paper traces that history beginning with the overt racism in the periodup to about 1910. During this time, W. E. B. Du Bois' attempts to gain acceptance from theAmerican...

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Homeward Bound : How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...

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Homeward bound : how migrants seek out familiar climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2024

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Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development : Evidence from Historical Treaties

Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with … Indigenous lands. However, treaties were not negotiated everywhere, including in regions subsequently settled by Europeans …, and state commitments to Indigenous nations. We study how these legal institutions have shaped the path of economic …

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