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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...

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Published in:Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1547 - 1566
Main Author: Berger, Thor
Format: journal article
Published: Springer Nature Aug2018
Subjects:
United States
Intergenerational mobility
Slavery
Geography
Economic mobility
Income
Equality
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost