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作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：I investigate the effects of trade on labor coercion under the dual-coercive institutions of slavery and state coercion. Employing novel data from Egypt, I document that the cotton boom in 1861-1865 increased both imported slaveholdings of the rural middle class and state coercion of local workers by the elite. As state coercion reduced wage employment, it reinforced the demand for slaves among the rural middle class. While the abolition of slavery in 1877 increased wages, it did not affect st...
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作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This paper uses a new linked sample constructed from full-count census data of 1851-1911 to revise estimates of intergenerational occupational mobility in England. I find that conventional estimates of intergenerational elasticities are attenuated by classical measurement error and severely underestimate the extent of father-son association in socioeconomic status. Instrumenting one measure of the father's outcome with a second measure of the father's outcome raises the intergenerational elast...
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作者：Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Stellenbosch University
摘要：Large and persistent racial disparities in land-based wealth were an important legacy of the Reconstruction era. To assess how these disparities were transmitted intergenerationally, we build a dataset to observe Black households' landholdings in 1880 alongside a sample of White households. We then link sons from all households to the 1900 census records to observe their economic and human capital outcomes. We show that Black landowners, relative to laborers, transmitted substantial intergener...
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