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Title: Land Ownership and the Coming of the Railroad to the American Midwest, 1850-60

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: The analysis in the paper focuses on the Midwest in the 1850s. We restrict our attention to the Midwest for two reasons. First, it was in the Midwest where the bulk of the growth in the rail network occurred in the 1850s making the effects easier to identify; and second, because we have developed an econometric strategy that is compelling for the Midwest in this period (see below). Analysis of the data is complicated by the fact that many county boundaries were redrawn during the period while other counties did not even exist until the 1840s. To minimize these complications, we have restricted our analysis to 278 counties that were in existence by 1840 and which did not change their boundaries during the 1850s.

Url: http://www3.dsi.uminho.pt/ebeira/foztua/wk2011/Atack.pdf

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Authors: Atack, Jeremy; Margo, Robert A

Conference Name: Railroads in Historical Perspective

Publisher Location: Foz Tua, Portugal

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Other

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