“…The Boll Weevil, Enrollment, and Attendance Baker (2015) showed that the boll weevil increased the enrollment rate of black children by 4 percent, and had a positive but not statistically significant effect on the white enrollment rate, in Georgia. In this section, we confirm that the boll weevil had a positive effect on enrollment 23 using county-level data from 1900 to 1934 for six Southern states of the Cotton Belt: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and 22 We use the IPUMS-provided, 1950-based occupational income score, which is assigned to individuals based on reported occupation and gives the median total annual income for those employed in that occupation in 1950 according to published census data.…”