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Title: Essays on Education and Immigration throughout the 20th Century

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: This dissertation is comprised of three chapters tied together under the broad umbrella of economic history. The first chapter examines the effect of access to schooling on black crime in this historic period. I use the construction of 5,000 new schools in the US south, funded by northern philanthropist Julius Rosenwald between 1913 and 1932, as a quasi-natural experiment which increased the educational attainment of southern black students. I match a sample of male prisoners and non-prisoners from the 1920-1940 Censuses backwards to their birth families in previous Census waves. I find that one year of access to a Rosenwald school decreased the probability of being a prisoner by 0.04-0.10 percentage points (10-15 percent of the mean). The second chapter examines immigrant assimilation in the early 20th century US. During the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), the US maintained an open border and absorbed 30 million European immigrants. In newly-assembled panel data, we show that . . .

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Authors: Eriksson, Katherine Amelia

Institution: University of California, Los Angeles

Department: Economics

Advisor: Boustan, Leah

Degree: PhD

Publisher Location: Los Angelos

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Migration and Immigration

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