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Title: Up from Slavery? Intergenerational Mobility in the Shadow of Jim Crow

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: We have built new datasets of linked census records for the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to document black-white differences in intergenerational economic mobility. Whether viewed from an occupational or income-based perspective, southern whites were much more likely than blacks, conditional on fathers status, to be upwardly mobile and less likely to be downwardly mobile. Children from poor white households often ascended into the American middle class, whereas children from poor black families rarely did. This work is preliminary and additional data collection is ongoing.

Url: http://www.econ.ucla.edu/workshops/papers/History/Intergen_May42015.pdf

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

Publisher: University of California, Los Angeles

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Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

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