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Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940

Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, M. Daniele; Salisbury, Laura; … - 2020

socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands. This socioeconomic …

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The economic progress of American Jewry: from 18th century merchants to 21st century professionals

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009

and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … compared to 20 percent of white non-Jewish men were in professional occupations. Among working women in 2000, 51 percent of the … Jewish women and 28 percent of non-Jewish white women were in professional jobs. Differences by gender were smaller than …

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

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926-2019: Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?

Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian Till; Franke, Richard - 2022

This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany's economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany, we establish that nearly half of them...

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Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Rural Electrification: Evidence from the Historical Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid

Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2017

employment, rural farm population, and rural property values, but there was little impact on the local non-agriculture economy …

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COVID-19, Race, and Redlining

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020

Discussion on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans has been at center stage since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States. To present day, however, lack of race-disaggregated individual data has prevented a rigorous assessment of the extent of this phenomenon...

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Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2016

Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify those who are harmed and those who benefit from them. To overcome this challenge, our paper uses a...

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The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains

Feir, Donn. L.; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie E. C. - 2022

In the late nineteenth century, the North American bison was brought to the brink of extinction in just over a decade. We demonstrate that the loss of the bison had immediate, negative consequences for the Native Americans who relied on them and ultimately resulted in a permanent reversal of...

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The Impact of Violence during the Mexican Revolution on Migration to the United States

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Kosack, Edward; Ward, Zachary - 2023

women and children. We show that violence was the main treatment channel, with variation in the intensity and nature of …

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Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates

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