Health, human capital, and African-American migration before 1910

Logan, Trevon D.

doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2008.06.003

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“…That said, there is much suggestive evidence that health and other forms of human capital were complements. Better educated Blacks were more likely to leave the South before World War One but some of his reflects a positive correlation between health and education -migrants were also healthier (Logan 2009). In the early twentieth century South children of both races suffered from high rates of hookworm infection which sapped their ability to perform well in school or even to attend.…”

Section: Interpreting the Time Series: Intergenerational Transmissionmentioning

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Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality

Margo¹

2016

J. Econ. Hist.

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New benchmark estimates of Black-White income ratios for 1870, 1900, and 1940 are combined with standard post-World War census data. The resulting time series reveals that the pace of racial income convergence has generally been steady but slow, quickening only during the 1940s and the modern Civil Rights era. I explore the interpretation of the time series with a model of intergenerational transmission of inequality in which racial differences in causal factors that determine income are very large just after the Civil War and which erode slowly across subsequent generations.“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”—W. E. B. Du Bois,The Souls of Black Folk

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Section: Interpreting the Time Series: Intergenerational Transmissionmentioning

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Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality

Margo¹

2016

J. Econ. Hist.

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“…Second, it describes a number of ways by which data have been recently revised and collected, and suggests how a national database of lynching victims might be constructed from recent efforts. While there is a fairly large literature that documents the fact that significant changes, especially racial, were taking place among African Americans following the Civil War and before the Great Migration (e.g., from Fogel and Engerman, 1974;Ransom and Sutch, 1977;Litwack, 1979Litwack, , 1998Margo, 1984;and Logan, 2009), less systematic microeconomic evidence exists to elucidate these changes and the mechanisms by which they occurred. This article aids in the quest to add more data for empirical analysis of African American life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.…”

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Converging to a National Lynching Database: Recent Developments and the Way Forward

Cook

2012

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdiscipli

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In tandem with a recent surge in interest in lynching in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, researchers in a number of fields have begun to use lynching data in new ways for a wide range of empirical investigations. A limited number of historical national lynching data series are available, have well-known flaws, and are nonetheless used. This article analyzes and compares these series, summarizes recent efforts to address their shortcomings, and identifies extensions that could aid in the construction a national database of confirmed lynching victims, whose broader applications are just beginning to be explored.

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“… See Bodnar et al (1982),Collins (2000),Maloney (2001),Logan (2009),Collins and Wanamaker (2014), andBlack et al (2015) for examples of research in which migrants are observed before and after moving.…”

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The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants

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Wanamaker

2015

J. Econ. Hist.

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We construct datasets of linked census records to study internal migrants' selection 1930). We study both whites and blacks and intra-and inter-regional migration. While there is some evidence of positive selection, the degree of selection was small and participation in migration was widespread. Differences in background, including initial location, cannot account for racial differences in destination choices. Blacks and whites were similarly responsive to pre-existing migrant stocks from their home state, but black men were more deterred by distance, attracted to manufacturing, and responsive to labor demand.A t the turn of the twentieth century, real income per worker in the South was less than one-half of that in the rest of the United States a labor demand boom in northern industrial centers and the interruption Social scientists have studied its causes and consequences for almost 100 provide additional perspective. First, we examine the migration decisions was important in its own right and provides a natural comparison for the migration patterns of blacks. Second, our analysis includes both intraand inter-regional migrants, whereas much of the previous literature has within regions, including the South, provide valuable information and a more complete picture of internal migration patterns during the early decades data that provide deeper insight than previously available into the careers that inform most quantitative studies of U.S. internal migration in the observe the same person before and after migration. 1 ante information hinders the study of how individual and local characterdestination. Furthermore, using ex post measures of migrants' outcomes or human capital that are available in cross-sectional data sources may providing a clearer view of the same men before and after the start of 1 migrants are observed before and after moving. Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants949 southern-resident males, ages 0 to 40, in 1910. We then locate the same men in the 1930 census manuscripts and transcribe data from the handless than age 18) still lived with their parents and siblings, and the older -mation on personal, household, and local background.For African Americans, the linked census records used here are the focused on measuring black men's income gains from inter-regional white and black migrants, which required the creation of a new set of -tion, this article studies both intra-regional and inter-regional migration of scholars' attention. Finally, as described later, much of this article is dedicated to studying the migrants' choices of destination and comparing black and white migration patterns across potential destinations, a topic in the history of Americans' internal migration. First, after documenting the outstanding features of southern black and white migration patterns and migrant characteristics, we investigate whether the migrants were -istics. Second, we examine how southern migrants sorted themselves across potential destinations and the extent to which personal characteristics, such...

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Health, human capital, and African-American migration before 1910

Cited by 23 publications

References 38 publications

Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality

Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality

Converging to a National Lynching Database: Recent Developments and the Way Forward

The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants

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