Full Citation

Title: The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Geographic Mobility of American Southerners

Citation Type: Miscellaneous

Publication Year: 2014

ISBN:

ISSN:

DOI:

NSFID:

PMCID:

PMID:

Abstract: We construct a new dataset of linked census records to follow southern menboth black and whiteduring the first decades of the Great Migration from the U.S. South. We find that detailed observable personal characteristics cannot account for black-white differences in migration choices in this period. Rather, black and white men responded differently to variation in the characteristics of potential destinations. Discrete choice models show that black men were relatively strongly drawn to states with high shares of manufacturing and rapid labor demand growth, were less likely to follow in the footsteps of previous migrants, were more likely to choose a northern destination, and were more deterred by distance than southern whites.

Url: http://economics.stanford.edu/files/BW_Paper_Tables_Appendix.pdf

User Submitted?: No

Authors: Wanamaker, Marianne H.; Collins, William J.

Publisher: Vanderbilt University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Migration and Immigration

Countries: