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Title: Slavery, Migration, and Local Development in the Western US

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: This paper examines the effects of migration from eastern slave states in the 19th century on the subsequent development of counties in the US west of the Mississippi River. Using birthplace data from the 1880 Census to measure the extent of migration from slave states, I find that increased migration from slave states has a large, statistically significant negative effect on 2010 income, and no significant effect on racial inequality or overall income inequality. These findings are robust to a variety of specifications, including controls for geographic factors, state fixed effects, and various county level social and economic conditions. Data on individual migrants suggest that the cause of the negative income effect is the lower average human capital endowment of migrants from slave states.

Url: http://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1161&context=hc_sas_etds

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Authors: Sharpe, Colin Q

Institution: Hunter College of the City of New York

Department: Economics

Advisor: Randall Filer

Degree: Master of Arts in Economics

Publisher Location: New York, New York

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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