We use a dataset of the entire population of English Parliamentary enclosure acts between 1750 and 1830 to provide the first causal evidence of their impact. Exploiting a feature of the Parliamentary process that produced such legislation as a source of exogenous variation, we show that...

The US Civil War ended in 1865 without the distribution of land or compensation to those formerly enslaved--a decision often seen as a cornerstone of racial inequality. We build a dataset to observe Black households' landholdings in 1880, a key component of their wealth, alongside a sample of...

Der Beitrag stellt die Ergebnisse einer Bedarfsanalyse auf dem Feld der Zeitgeschichte vor, die im Rahmen des im Januar 2020 gestarteten DFG-Projektes "Sozialdaten als Quellen der Zeitgeschichte. Erstellung eines Rahmenkonzepts für eine Forschungsdateninfrastruktur in der zeithistorischen...