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Title: Native Americans in the Historical Census: New Data and Applications

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Publication Year: 2020

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Abstract: The digitized historical Full Count Census waves from 1900-1940 are a rich source of information for individual-or household-level quantitative research on the Native American population, with the average census wave containing more than 300,000 Native American individuals. Without the missing information on reservation, however , there is no treatment variation in any of the major historical policies that Native Americans were exposed to, such as Indian boarding schools and land allotment. We describe the construction of a stable reservation-to-individual crosswalk that assigns a reservation to over ninety percent of individuals in the historical Native American population, and apply this crosswalk to answering some long-standing questions on within-reservation inequality.

Url: http://irving.vassar.edu/faculty/df/Research/AssignReztoHistID.pdf

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Authors: Dippel, Christian; Frye, Dustin

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA - Ancestry Full Count Data

Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Population Data Science, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography, Race and Ethnicity

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