Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020
sugar plantations, since the extreme demographic and social conditions prevailing in the latter have persistently affected … family formation patterns. By exploiting the exogenous variation in sugar suitability, we establish the following. In 1850 …, sugar suitability is indeed associated with extreme demographic outcomes within the slave population. Over the period 1880 …
