| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27101 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27101 |
| The Boll Weevil\u2019s Impact on Racial Income Gaps in the Early Twentieth Century | |
| Karen Clay; Ethan J. Schmick; Werner Troesken | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-05-04 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper investigates the effect of a large negative agricultural shock, the boll weevil, on racial income gaps in the first half of the twentieth century. We draw on complete count census data to generate a new large linked sample of Black and white fathers and their sons. Fathers are observed before and after the arrival of the boll weevil in their county, and their sons are observed in their father’s household as children and again in 1940 as adults. In race specific difference-in-differences specifications and in triple differences specifications, we find that the boll weevil differentially affected wages of Black sons born after its arrival. Relative to white sons born after the boll weevil, Black sons born after the boll weevil saw a 6%increase in their wages. The magnitude of the effect is similar when the sample is constrained to sons whose father stayed in the South and to sons who stayed in the South. Evidence on changes in fertility and heights suggests that the relative gains were driven by improvements in early life conditions for Black sons born after the weevil’s arrival. The magnitude of the effect of the boll weevil on the Black-white wage gap can be better understood by comparing it with changes between 1940 and 1950, a period of rapid convergence. The boll weevil caused the Black-white wage gap to fall by roughly half of the decline between 1940 and 1950 in the South or a third of the decline nationally. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Unemployment and Immigration ; History ; Labor and Health History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27101 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584774 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Karen Clay,Ethan J. Schmick,Werner Troesken. The Boll Weevil\u2019s Impact on Racial Income Gaps in the Early Twentieth Century. 2020. |
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