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33 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18241
Empowered Mothers, Empowered Generations: The Impact of Women’s Economic Rights
Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Elisabeth Wurm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18197
'The Queen of Inventions': How Home Technology Shaped Women’s Work and Children’s Futures
Esther Arenas-Arroyo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18033
Three Wages and Two Prices
John H. Pencavel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18031
An Analysis of Slaveholders According to the 1850 Census
Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17835
Jewish Occupational Attainment in the Antebellum United States: Filling a Gap in the Literature
Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
forthcoming in: Social Science History
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17382
The Labor Market Attainment of Immigrants in the Antebellum United States
Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17326
Accounting for the Growth of Real Wages of U.S. Manufacturing Production Workers since the Nineteenth Century
John H. Pencavel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16974
Examining the Long-Run Impacts of Racial Terror with Data on Historical Lynchings of Mexicans in Texas
Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan
published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2024, 114, 215–220
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16710
Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates
Marguerite Obolensky, Marco Tabellini, Charles A. Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16503
The Long Shadow of the Past: Early-Life Disease Environment and Later-Life Mortality
Hamid Noghanibehambari, Jason M. Fletcher
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16461
Explaining Gender Differences in Migrant Sorting: Evidence from Canada-US Migration
David Escamilla-Guerrero, Miko Lepistö, Chris Minns
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16359
The Impact of Violence during the Mexican Revolution on Migration to the United States
David Escamilla-Guerrero, Edward Kosack, Zachary Ward
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 176, 103515.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16063
The Occupational Attainment of American Jewish Men in the Mid-19th Century
Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15498
The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains
Donn. L. Feir, Rob Gillezeau, Maggie E. C. Jones
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (3), 1634–1670
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15295
Safeguarding Consumers through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality, 1880-1910
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Michael McKelligott, Daniel I. Rees
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15215
Little Divergence in America — Market Access and Demographic Transition in the United States
Melanie Guldi, Ahmed S. Rahman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15162
The Occupations of Free Women and Substitution with Enslaved Workers in the Antebellum United States
Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14975
Estimating the Effects of Milk Inspections on Infant and Child Mortality, 1880-1910
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Michael McKelligott, Daniel I. Rees
published in: American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 188-192.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14567
Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the US
Stefano Gagliarducci, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14449
Women at Work in the United States since 1860: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers
Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 82, 101406
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14037
Between the Dockyard and the Deep Blue Sea: Retention and Personnel Economics in the Royal Navy
Darrell J. Glaser, Ahmed S. Rahman
published in: Labour Economics 2023, 84, 102407
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13811
Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940
Claudia Olivetti, M. Daniele Paserman, Laura Salisbury, E. Anna Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13647
Institutional Discrimination and Assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Shuo Chen, Bin Xie
published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2024, 94, 101615
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13611
The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Law-Making
Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager, Stephan Ernst Maurer
revised version published in: Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82 (1), 250 - 283
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13424
Women at Work in the Pre-Civil War United States: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers
Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
published as 'Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers' in: Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 82, 101406
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11418
The Occupational Status of Jews in the United States on the Eve of the US Civil War
Barry R. Chiswick
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10351
Rainfall Risk and Fertility: Evidence from Farm Settlements during the American Demographic Transition
Michael Grimm
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21, 593-618.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10226
Suffrage, Labour Markets and Coalitions in Colonial Virginia
Elena Nikolova, Milena Nikolova
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 49, 108 - 122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9060
Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010
Scott L. Fulford, Ivan Petkov, Fabio Schiantarelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6192
The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico
revised version published as 'The Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40, 581-595
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6017
Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico
revised version published as 'De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi' in: Constitutional Political Economy, 2017, 28, 321-345
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4590
The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals
Barry R. Chiswick
published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 625-645
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3652
The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855–1860
Jonathan B. Pritchett, Myeong-Su Yun
published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2009, 46 (2), 241-252
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