Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data

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Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Year: 2014

Volume: 6

Issue: 1

Pages: 220-52

Authors (2)

William J. Collins (not in RePEc) Marianne H. Wanamaker (University of Tennessee-Knoxvi...)

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Abstract

The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the US South, arguably the most important internal migration in US history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 census manuscripts to

Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data

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