| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28405 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28405 |
| Bad Men, Good Roads, Jim Crow, and the Economics of Southern Chain Gangs | |
| Howard Bodenhorn | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-02-01 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Penology in the Jim Crow South centered on the chain gang. Gangs ostensibly served three purposes: their severity served as a deterrent; their putting convicts to work on roads and other public improvements reduced the taxpayers’ costs of infrastructure; and their discriminatory implementation reinforced the social order defined by Jim Crow. Drawing on insights from the economics of crime literature, this paper analyzes whether chain gangs reduced road maintenance costs. Using a fixed-effects design, the analysis finds that the costs of using gangs in road maintenance were marginally lower on average than using wage labor. The results are consistent with county officials choosing between convict and free labor in manner consistent with minimizing taxpayers’ costs. |
| 主题 | Other ; Law and Economics ; History ; Macroeconomic History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28405 |
| 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/586079 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Howard Bodenhorn. Bad Men, Good Roads, Jim Crow, and the Economics of Southern Chain Gangs. 2021. |
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