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Essays in Economic History
Essays in Economic History
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103553
- ISBN
- 9798288864421
- DDC
- 306.6
- 서명/저자
- Essays in Economic History
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Berkeley, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 103 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-01, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Eichengreen, Barry.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약William Faulkner once said, "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi''. This dissertation embraces Faulkner's insight by examining Southern states during the early 20th century to extract broader economic lessons about human capital development, household labor dynamics, and migration patterns. Through three interconnected essays, I examine how compulsory schooling laws, household labor allocation, and religious networks shaped individual outcomes and regional development during a transformative period in American history.The first chapter introduces a novel dataset of county-level compulsory schooling laws in the US South from 1900-1940 to investigate how education affected wages through both direct and spillover effects. Using spatial variation in adoption timing, I find that white workers leveraged increased schooling to access higher-wage occupations, with a Mincer return of 0.15, while black workers gained similar years of education but saw no significant wage returns due to occupational segregation. A spatial model of skill supply and demand reveals strong complementarities between skill groups for white workers but much weaker effects for black workers, highlighting how labor market discrimination limited the equalizing potential of education policy.The second chapter examines how households responded when compulsory schooling laws eliminated child labor as an economic resource. By constructing a measure of household-level exposure to these laws and linking individuals across censuses, I show that economically vulnerable families compensated by redirecting older siblings toward immediate labor market participation, sacrificing their human capital development. Older brothers in affected households experienced lower educational attainment and approximately 0.7 percent lower wages for each year of schooling required of their younger siblings. These findings support the interpretation that child labor primarily served subsistence needs rather than reflecting parental preferences.The third chapter investigates how religious networks influenced migration patterns during the Great Migration. Co-authored with Daria Bakhareva, this paper combines census data with records from the Census of Religious Bodies to demonstrate that religious similarity between counties significantly predicted higher migration flows for black Americans. These networks primarily facilitated migration through non-wage channels rather than by providing information about better-paying jobs. Using religious networks as an instrument for migration flows, we find that white workers in the South experienced substantial wage benefits from black out-migration through occupational upgrading, while black workers saw more modest gains from reduced labor market competition.Together, these essays provide new insights into how educational expansion, family labor allocation, and migration networks shaped economic development and inequality in the American South during the early twentieth century.
- 키워드
- Child labor
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley Economics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-01A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
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■520 ▼aWilliam Faulkner once said, "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi''. This dissertation embraces Faulkner's insight by examining Southern states during the early 20th century to extract broader economic lessons about human capital development, household labor dynamics, and migration patterns. Through three interconnected essays, I examine how compulsory schooling laws, household labor allocation, and religious networks shaped individual outcomes and regional development during a transformative period in American history.The first chapter introduces a novel dataset of county-level compulsory schooling laws in the US South from 1900-1940 to investigate how education affected wages through both direct and spillover effects. Using spatial variation in adoption timing, I find that white workers leveraged increased schooling to access higher-wage occupations, with a Mincer return of 0.15, while black workers gained similar years of education but saw no significant wage returns due to occupational segregation. A spatial model of skill supply and demand reveals strong complementarities between skill groups for white workers but much weaker effects for black workers, highlighting how labor market discrimination limited the equalizing potential of education policy.The second chapter examines how households responded when compulsory schooling laws eliminated child labor as an economic resource. By constructing a measure of household-level exposure to these laws and linking individuals across censuses, I show that economically vulnerable families compensated by redirecting older siblings toward immediate labor market participation, sacrificing their human capital development. Older brothers in affected households experienced lower educational attainment and approximately 0.7 percent lower wages for each year of schooling required of their younger siblings. These findings support the interpretation that child labor primarily served subsistence needs rather than reflecting parental preferences.The third chapter investigates how religious networks influenced migration patterns during the Great Migration. Co-authored with Daria Bakhareva, this paper combines census data with records from the Census of Religious Bodies to demonstrate that religious similarity between counties significantly predicted higher migration flows for black Americans. These networks primarily facilitated migration through non-wage channels rather than by providing information about better-paying jobs. Using religious networks as an instrument for migration flows, we find that white workers in the South experienced substantial wage benefits from black out-migration through occupational upgrading, while black workers saw more modest gains from reduced labor market competition.Together, these essays provide new insights into how educational expansion, family labor allocation, and migration networks shaped economic development and inequality in the American South during the early twentieth century.
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