作者：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
作者：Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen
作者：University of Toronto; York University - Canada; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：The American Civil War fractured communities in border states where families who would eventually support the Union or the Confederacy lived together prior to the conflict. We study the subsequent migration choices of Civil War veterans and their families using a unique longitudinal dataset covering enlistees from the border state of Kentucky. Nearly half of surviving Kentucky veterans moved to a new county between 1860 and 1880. We find strong evidence of sorting along ideological dimensions ...
作者：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Atlanta; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
作者：University of California System; University of California Irvine
作者：Universite de Montreal
摘要：From 1930 to 1960 rural communities, mainly in the U.S. South and Southwest, gained access to electricity. In addition to lights, the benefits included easier clothes washing, refrigeration, and pumped water. This article uses differences in the timing of electricity access across rural counties to study the effects on infant mortality and fertility. Rural electrification led to substantial reductions in infant mortality but had little effect on women's fertility. The increase in electricity a...
