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Reassessing the Magnitude of Housing Price Declines During the Depressions of the 1890s and 1930s

Rose, Jonathan - 2020

This paper constructs the first repeat sales house price index in United States history before 1950, using data from Baltimore. It shows that house prices fell more during the 1890s and 1930s than existing data indicate. As a result, while previous data suggest most borrowers should have been...

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The Southern Economy

Carden, Art - 2011

This essay surveys some of the key themes in Southern economic history and traces the development of the region through the colonial and revolutionary eras, the antebellum period, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the post-bellum period, and the modern period. In particular, I highlight the...

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Slavery, Amenities, and Factor Price Equalization : A Note on Migration and Freedom

Graves, Philip E. - 2010

The paper examines the role of self-ownership versus other ownership of labor with implications for the interpretation of the historical evidence regarding timing of black migration from the South to the North after emancipation

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The Peculiar Immobility : Regional Affinity and the Postbellum Black Migrant

Graves, Philip E. - 2012

Why did newly freed slaves and their descendants wait a half a century before migrating in large numbers to the superior economic opportunities in the North? Census lifetime migration data on both movers and stayers are examined intertemporally for both whites and blacks. Regression analysis...

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Who married, (to) whom, and where? : trends in marriage in the United States, 1850-1940

Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, Marco 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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Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940

Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, Marco Daniele; Salisbury, Laura - 2021

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

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Not What it Used to Be : The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volumes II and III

Field, Alexander J. - 2009

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Traumatic Financial Experiences and Persistent Changes in Financial Behavior : Evidence from the Freedman's Savings Bank

Arthi, Vellore; Richardson, Gary; Van Orden, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The failure of the Freedman's Savings Bank (FSB), one of the only Black-serving banks in the early post-bellum South, was an economic catastrophe and one of the great episodes of racial exploitation in post-Emancipation history. It was also most Black Americans' first experience of banking. Can...

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From Exclusion to Exclusivity : Chinese American Property Ownership and Discrimination in Historical Perspective

Szto, Mary - 2018

buy in upscale, exclusive markets. It is little known, however, that in the past Chinese faced severe property … discrimination in the US. This paper traces three eras of Chinese property ownership and discrimination. Many Chinese first came to …, and job discrimination. I conclude that we must unearth the past history of property discrimination to address continuing …

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From plantations to prisons : the race gap in incarceration after the abolition of slavery in the U.S.

Rubio-Ramos, Melissa - 2022

This paper documents the emergence of a race gap in incarceration after the abolition of slavery in the U.S. Counties that relied more on slave labor incarcerated more African Americans, with no comparable effects for whites. An increase of slave reliance by 10% increases black incarceration...

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