Nicholas, Stephen; Shergold, Peter R - In: Oxford Economic Papers 39 (1987) 4, pp. 624-40
This paper examines a new data source, the indents which accompanied convicts transported to New South Wales, Australia, between 1817 and 1839 provide socioeconomic variables on the skills, literacy, conjugal status, occupations, sex, and age of 10,151 men and women. Using this data, a logit...