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"Location, Location, Location!" The Market for Vacant Urban Land: New York 1835-1900

scientific article published in August 1996

A silver lining to white flight? White suburbanization and African–American homeownership, 1940–1980

article by Leah P. Boustan & Robert Margo published November 2013 in Journal of Urban Economics

Accounting for Racial Differences in School Attendance in the American South, 1900: The Role of Separate-But-Equal

scientific article published in May 1987

Accumulation of Property by Southern Blacks Before World War I: Commentand Further Evidence

scholarly article published September 1983

Added and Discouraged Workers in the Late 1930s: A Re-Examination

scientific article published in April 1993

Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860

scientific article published in November 2009

Capital Deepening in American Manufacturing, 1850-1880

scientific article published in August 2003

Capital deepening and the rise of the factory: the American experience during the nineteenth century

article published in 2005

Changes in the Distribution of Wages, 1940-1950: The Public vs. the Private Sector

scientific article published in December 1995

Chapter 3 Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

article

Chapter 66 Historical perspectives on U.S. economic geography

Compulsory Schooling Legislation and School Attendance in Turn-of-the-Century America: A "Natural Experiment" Approach

scientific article published in July 1996

Compulsory schooling legislation and school attendance in turn-of-the century America: A ‘natural experiment’ approach

Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60

Does Condominium Development Lead to Gentrification?

scientific article published in August 2019

Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing Revisited: A Resolution of the Entrepreneurial Labor Input Problem

scientific article published in June 2013

Education Achievement in Segregated School Systems: The Effects of "Separate-But-Equal"

scientific article published in May 1985

Employment and Unemployment in the 1930s

scientific article published in September 1992

Explaining Black-White Wage Convergence, 1940-1950: The Role of the Great Compression

scientific article published in March 1993

Explaining the Rise in Antebellum Pauperism: New Evidence

article

Gallman Revisited: Blacksmithing and American Manufacturing, 1850-1870

scientific article published in May 2017

Gallman revisited: blacksmithing and American manufacturing, 1850–1870

Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

scientific article published in June 2003

Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography

scientific article published in March 2003

Labor Market Integration Before the Civil War

scientific article published in October 1998

Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality

scientific article published in February 2016

PART-YEAR OPERATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN MANUFACTURING: EVIDENCE FROM THE 1870 AND 1880 CENSUSES

article

Race and Home Ownership from the Civil War to the Present

scientific article published in January 2011

Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990

scientific article published in August 1999

Race and Home Ownership: A Century-Long View

article

Race and the Value of Owner-Occupied Housing, 1940-1990

scientific article published in June 2000

Race and the value of owner-occupied housing, 1940–1990

article

Race, Home Ownership, and Family Structure in Twentieth-century America

article

Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment: New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch

scientific article published in October 2007

Racial Differences in Health in Long-Run Perspective: A Brief Introduction

scientific article published in December 2014

Railroads and Local Economic Development: The United States in the 1850s

scientific article published in July 2006

Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850-70

scientific article published in October 2008

Rising Wage Dispersion Across American Manufacturing Establishments, 1850-1880

Schooling and the Great Migration

Segregated Schools and the Mobility Hypothesis: A Model of Local Government Discrimination

Steam Power, Establishment Size, and Labor Productivity Growth in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing

scientific article published in January 2006

Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective

The Antebellum "Surge" in Skill Differentials One More Time: New Evidence

scientific article published in October 1985

The Competitive Dynamics of Racial Exclusion: Employment Segregation in the South, 1900-1950

The Decline in Black Teenage Labor Force Participation in the South, 1900-1970: The Role of Schooling

scientific article published in May 1991

The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values

article

The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots: Evidence from Property Values

scientific article published in May 2004

The Economic History of the "American Economic Review": A Century's Explosion of Economics Research

scientific article published in August 2010

The Economic History of theAmerican Economic Review: A Century's Explosion of Economics Research

article

The Farm-Nonfarm Wage Gap in the Antebellum United States: Evidence fromthe 1850 and 1860 Censuses of Social Statistics

scientific article published in August 1995

The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid- Century

scientific article published in August 1991

The Impact of the Civil War on Capital Intensity and Labor Productivity in Southern Manufacturing

scientific article published in November 2004

The Integration of Economic History into Economics

scientific article published in June 2017

The Labor Force Participation of Older Americans in 1900: Further Results

article

The Labor Force Participation of Older Americans in 1900: Further Results

scientific article published in July 1991

The Labor Force in the Nineteenth Century

scientific article published in September 1992

The Labor Market Effects of the 1960s Riots

scientific article published in January 2004

The Microeconomics of Depression Unemployment

scientific article published in December 1990

The North-South Wage Gap, Before and After the Civil War

scientific article published in February 2002

The Poor at Birth: Infant Auxology and Mortality at Philadelphia's Almshouse Hospital, 1848-1873

The integration of economic history into economics

Wages and Prices During the Antebellum Period: A Survey and New Evidence

Wages in California During the Gold Rush

scientific article published in June 1997

Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets Before the Civil War

scientific article published in December 1989

White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980

scientific article published in January 2011

‘Mechanization Takes Command’: Inanimate Power and Labor Productivity in Late Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing

scientific article published in June 2020