The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African Americans: Evidence from the Deep South

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Black, Dan A.; Sanders, Seth G.; Taylor, Evan J.; Taylor, Lowell J.
• 署名单位: University of Chicago; Duke University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Carnegie Mellon University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20120642
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 477-503
• 关键词: UNITED-STATES; SELECTIVE MIGRATION; black; HEALTH; identification; gains

摘要

The Great Migration-the massive migration of African Americans out of the rural South to largely urban locations in the North, Midwest, and West-was a landmark event in US history. Our paper shows that this migration increased mortality of African Americans born in the early twentieth century South. This inference comes from an analysis that uses proximity of birthplace to railroad lines as an instrument for migration.