Places of Persistence: Slavery and the Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States.
Intergenerational mobility has remained stable over recent decades in the United States but varies sharply across the country. In this article, I document that areas with more prevalent slavery by the outbreak of the Civil War exhibit substantially less upward mobility today. I find a negative link...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1547 - 1566 |
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