William J. Collins’s research while affiliated with Vanderbilt University and other places

... The principle of this method is that the difference between two estimates of the same quantity, one of which depends on linkage and the other of which does not, is informative of the rate of false linkage. Specifically, I use information on the ages and birthplaces of children in the household to generate an alternate measure of inter-state migration that does not require linkage (Collins and Zimran 2019;Rosenbloom and Sundstrom 2004), though it can be applied only to a select sample of individuals. 5 Comparing this measure to that arising from linkage enables me to estimate the rate of false matches for each linkage method and to correct my estimated intercounty migration rates. ...

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Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–1940

... Table 5 shows the impact of Rosenwald schools on the occupational standing of Black men and women. In Columns (1) and (2), we assess whether Blacks exposed to Rosenwald schools had better jobs on average in 1940, as measured by the race-and region-specific occupational income scores from Collins and Wanamaker (2022), either in logs or in percentile ranks. 15 Employing race-specific occupational income scores is important since Black and white workers with the same job title often had different duties and earned different wages. ...

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Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools

... However, the definition of individuals is what marks the difference between these panels and the DWI: in the DWI panel, as in all slave-based societies, slaves were not considered as individuals, but only as wealth. Only with emancipation would this distinction, at least legally, disappear.The DWI panel differs substantially from the historical datasets available for North America, in that the latter build upon a single source of data, census data, mostly concerned with demographics (The demography Canadian Linked Census Data -Antonie et al. 2020; 2022;, the American intergenerational linked census dataset -Collins and Wanamaker 2017;Collins, Holtkamp, and Wanamaker 2022). Compared to these datasets, the DWI panel links data more often than just once per decade, thanks to the use of tax records along with census data. ...

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Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914

... Aunque las leyes se aplicaron en todo el territorio, en el norte fueron más laxas (de facto), mientras en el sur fueron más duras (de iure). Esto llevó a muchas personas negras y de otras minorías étnicas a emigrar desde las tierras del sur hacia el norte del país (Collins, 2021). Con ello intentaban protegerse de las leyes segregacionistas de Jim Crow -mientras no invadieran los espacios de los blancos-pues en el norte las personas no blancas tenían cierta libertad. ...

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Sociología de las migraciones. Perspectiva iberoamericana

... The important role played by non-economic drivers has also been emphasized by the literature on the determinants of public opinion toward immigration (e.g.,Dustmann & Preston, 2007;Hainmueller & Hiscox, 2006;Mayda, 2006) and in the historical account of the determinants of migration policy byTimmer and Williamson (1996). Looking at the experience of the New World between 1860 and 1930,Collins et al. (1999) suggest that "policy did not behave as if New World politicians and voters thought trade and immigration were substitutes'' (p. 252). ...

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The political economy of trade and migration: Evidence from the U.S. Congress

... Gender composition varied between the Irishand German-speaking migrants as Irish migrants tended to be more frequently female, taking on the journey to seek employment in domestic service (Donato et al. 2011: 499), 5 whereas more young men left German-speaking Europe (Ette and Erlinghagen 2021: 44-45). Among the Irish, manufacturing, trade, and transportation dominated, alongside domestic and personal servicethese migrants generally had lower professional skills and were from poorer communities, particularly after the Irish famine (Connor 2019: 142-3;Collins and Zimran 2019). Among the Germans one finds a higher share of artisans and thus a positive selection on skills (Wegge 2002). ...

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Finding home in Irish and German migrant letters: A comparative analysis

... Diebolt and Haupert (2019) compare the percentage of citations of economics literature in EBHJ articles to the percentage of such citations in non-EBHJs. • Trends in topics and publications that discuss the past and current frontier of the research agenda on the field The authors studying this trend include Angrist et al. (2017), Collins (2018), Cioni et al. (2021), Margo (2011Margo ( , 2021, Mihaljevic (2019), Romer (1994); Seltzer (2018), and Wehrheim (2019). Wehrheim (2019) looks at topics in the Journal of Economic History and points out the growing use of econometric language. ...

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Recent trends in publications of economic historians in Europe and North America (1980–2019): an empirical analysis

... Throughout the paper, I motivate the decline in worker bargaining power with the decline in unionization because unions typically have more sway than individuals when negotiating with employers. A vast empirical literature documents causal ties between union membership and higher wages for low-and middle-wage workers (Callaway and Collins, 2018;Collins and Niemesh, 2019;Farber et al., 2021). When the opposite occurred at the aggregate level and unionization declined in the 1970s and 1980s, it follows that less unionization likely contributed to wage stagnation. ...

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Did Racially Motivated Labor Policy Reverse Equality Gains for Everyone?

... Recent studies have explored the relationship between unionization and inequality [Callaway and Collins, 2018, Collins and Niemesh, 2019, Fortin et al., 2021, Farber et al., 2021. Although these studies report a significant negative association between unions and inequality in a cross-section or a panel, a causal interpretation of those results requires strong assumptions, as illustrated by the quote in the Introduction. ...

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Regression discontinuity aggregation, with an application to the union effects on inequality

... The United States is presently the only country with a continuous series of microdata spanning the twentieth century; as a consequence, there has been an explosion of studies of long-run family change in the United States. Dozens of investigators have explored a wide range of topics, including marital disruption (Cvrcek 2011), transitions to adulthood (Fussell & Furstenberg 2005), the racial crossover in family complexity (Goldscheider & Bures 2003), the living arrangements of children and the decline in coresidential support for young mothers (Tolnay 2004, Short et al. 2006), living arrangements of the elderly (Costa 1999, Gratton & Gutmann 2010, the rise of cohabitation and interracial marriage (Rosenfeld 2006), and the impact of home ownership on family structure (Collins & Margo 2004). ...

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The Future of Historical Family Demography