William J Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1153049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William J Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | William J |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9647-4408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The geography of opportunity after the Civil War: Black and white Americans’ intra- and intergenerational mobility into property ownership
Introduction to special issue of explorations in economic history on the impacts of World War II on the U.S. economy
World War II service and the GI Bill: New evidence on selection and veterans’ outcomes from linked census records
We examine new datasets of records linked between the 1940 and 1950 US censuses to characterize selection into military service during World War II and to analyze differences in veterans’ post-war educational and labor market outcomes relative to nonveterans. Motivated by potentially disparate selection into and effects of service, we pay particular attention to groups distinguished by age, pre-war educational attainment, race, and nativity. We f…
Black Americans' Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records
Large and persistent racial disparities in land-based wealth were an important legacy of the Reconstruction era. To assess how these disparities were transmitted intergenerationally, we build a dataset to observe Black households' landholdings in 1880 alongside a sample of White households. We then link sons from all households to the 1900 census records to observe their economic and human capital outcomes. We show that Black landowners, relative…
Farm-to-School programmes, benefits, health outcomes and barriers: A structured literature review
Introduction: A common refrain in public health and medicine concerns the rapidly rising incidence of obesity and metabolic-like syndromes over the last two decades. A plethora of data suggests there are many roots to the issue and what to do about it. The rise of childhood obesity and the growing incidence of adult endocrine diseases like type 2 diabetes mellitus in paediatric populations are the most concerning. One of the solutions that aims t…
The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South: A guide and interpretation
The economic assimilation of Irish Famine migrants to the United States
Unions and the Great Compression of wage inequality in the US at mid-century: Evidence From Local Labour Markets
This article tests whether places with higher exposure to unionization during the 1940s, due to their pre-existing industrial composition, tended to have larger declines in wage inequality, conditional on local economic and demographic observables and regional trends. We find a strong negative correlation between exposure to unionization and changes in local inequality from 1940-50 and 1940-60. This does not appear to be underpinned by skill-spec…
Unions, workers, and wages at the peak of the American labor movement
Looking Forward: Positive and Normative Views of Economic History's Future
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants
We construct datasets of linked census records to study internal migrants' selection and destination choices during the first decades of the "Great Migration" (1910-1930). We study both whites and blacks and intra- and inter-regional migration. While there is some evidence of positive selection, the degree of selection was small and participation in migration was widespread. Differences in background, including initial location, cannot account fo…
The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values
In the 1960s many American cities experienced violent, race-related civil disturbances. This article examines census data from 1950 to 1980 to measure the riots' impact on the value of central-city residential property, and especially on black-owned property. Both OLS and IV estimates indicate that the riots depressed the median value of black-owned property between 1960 and 1970, with little or no rebound in the 1970s. Census tract data for a sm…
A neighborhood-level view of riots, property values, and population loss: Cleveland 1950–1980
The Political Economy of State Fair Housing Laws before 1968
The combined influence of the Great Migration of African Americans and the civil rights movement propelled the drive for fair housing legislation, which attempted to curb overt discrimination in housing markets. This drive culminated in the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968. By that time, 57 percent of the U.S. population and 41 percent of the African American population already resided in states with a fair housing law. This article uses hazard m…
The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s
The 1940s marked a turning point in the labor market outcomes of African-American women. They experienced large wage gains relative to white women, sharp declines in agricultural and domestic service work, and significant increases in formal sector employment. Using a semiparametric decomposition technique, we assess the influence of changes in productive and personal characteristics, in workers' distribution across occupations and locations, and…
Race, Labor Markets, and Social Disorder in Twentieth-Century America: An Introduction
In 1900, approximately 10 percent of African Americans resided in central cities; by 1970, nearly 60 percent did, far higher than the corresponding proportion of whites. This geographic redistribution was central to the twentieth-century African American economic experience, with connections radiating in innumerable directions: to labor markets, housing markets, educational systems, the civil rights movement, and public policy responses to discri…
The Contribution from Shipping Emissions to Air Quality and Acid Deposition in Europe
A global three-dimensional Lagrangian chemistry-transport model STOCHEM is used to describe the European regional acid deposition and ozone air quality impacts along the Atlantic Ocean seaboard of Europe, from the SO2, NOx, VOCs and CO emissions from international shipping under conditions appropriate to the year 2000. Model-derived total sulfur deposition from international shipping reaches over 200 mg S m-2 yr-1 over the southwestern approaches…
The Contribution from Shipping Emissions to Air Quality and Acid Deposition in Europe
A global three-dimensional Lagrangian chemistry-transport model STOCHEM is used to describe the European regional acid deposition and ozone air quality impacts along the Atlantic Ocean seaboard of Europe, from the SO2, NOx, VOCs and CO emissions from international shipping under conditions appropriate to the year 2000. Model-derived total sulfur deposition from international shipping reaches over 200 mg S m(-2) yr(-1) over the southwestern approa…
The housing market impact of state-level anti-discrimination laws, 1960–1970
The political economy of state-level fair employment laws, 1940–1964
The Labor Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1940-1960
By the time Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 98% of non-southern blacks (40% of all blacks) already resided in states with "fair employment" laws prohibiting labor market discrimination. Using census data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, the author assesses the impact of fair employment legislation on black workers' relative income, unemployment, labor force participation, migration, and occupational and industrial distr…
Race and Home Ownership: A Century-Long View
Capital-Goods Prices and Investment, 1870-1950
The relative price of capital goods, an important component of the user cost of capital, has rarely been incorporated into comparative studies of long-run capital accumulation. This article constructs and explores a data set for capital-goods and equipment prices covering the 1870–1950 period for 11 OECD countries. We document substantial differences across countries in the relative prices of capital goods, but also find convergence in those pric…
African-American Economic Mobility in the 1940s: A Portrait from the Palmer Survey
I use retrospective work histories from a unique dataset to follow workers in six cities through occupational, industrial, and geographic moves, thereby characterizing aspects of black economic mobility during the 1940s that cannot be viewed through the Census data. Relatively few migrants were drawn directly from the southern agricultural sector. Black occupational upgrades were larger than white upgrades on average but black upgrades were small…
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965
The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values
In the 1960s many American cities experienced violent, race-related civil disturbances. This article examines census data from 1950 to 1980 to measure the riots' impact on the value of central-city residential property, and especially on black-owned property. Both OLS and IV estimates indicate that the riots depressed the median value of black-owned property between 1960 and 1970, with little or no rebound in the 1970s. Census tract data for a sm…
The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants
We construct datasets of linked census records to study internal migrants' selection and destination choices during the first decades of the "Great Migration" (1910-1930). We study both whites and blacks and intra- and inter-regional migration. While there is some evidence of positive selection, the degree of selection was small and participation in migration was widespread. Differences in background, including initial location, cannot account fo…
The economic assimilation of Irish Famine migrants to the United States
Labor Mobility, Market Integration, and Wage Convergence in Late 19th Century India
Race and Home Ownership: A Century-Long View
African-American Economic Mobility in the 1940s: A Portrait from the Palmer Survey
I use retrospective work histories from a unique dataset to follow workers in six cities through occupational, industrial, and geographic moves, thereby characterizing aspects of black economic mobility during the 1940s that cannot be viewed through the Census data. Relatively few migrants were drawn directly from the southern agricultural sector. Black occupational upgrades were larger than white upgrades on average but black upgrades were small…
The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s
The 1940s marked a turning point in the labor market outcomes of African-American women. They experienced large wage gains relative to white women, sharp declines in agricultural and domestic service work, and significant increases in formal sector employment. Using a semiparametric decomposition technique, we assess the influence of changes in productive and personal characteristics, in workers' distribution across occupations and locations, and…
Capital-Goods Prices and Investment, 1870-1950
The relative price of capital goods, an important component of the user cost of capital, has rarely been incorporated into comparative studies of long-run capital accumulation. This article constructs and explores a data set for capital-goods and equipment prices covering the 1870–1950 period for 11 OECD countries. We document substantial differences across countries in the relative prices of capital goods, but also find convergence in those pric…
Unions and the Great Compression of wage inequality in the US at mid-century: Evidence From Local Labour Markets
This article tests whether places with higher exposure to unionization during the 1940s, due to their pre-existing industrial composition, tended to have larger declines in wage inequality, conditional on local economic and demographic observables and regional trends. We find a strong negative correlation between exposure to unionization and changes in local inequality from 1940-50 and 1940-60. This does not appear to be underpinned by skill-spec…
A neighborhood-level view of riots, property values, and population loss: Cleveland 1950–1980
The Political Economy of State Fair Housing Laws before 1968
The combined influence of the Great Migration of African Americans and the civil rights movement propelled the drive for fair housing legislation, which attempted to curb overt discrimination in housing markets. This drive culminated in the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968. By that time, 57 percent of the U.S. population and 41 percent of the African American population already resided in states with a fair housing law. This article uses hazard m…
The political economy of state-level fair employment laws, 1940–1964
Unions, workers, and wages at the peak of the American labor movement
The housing market impact of state-level anti-discrimination laws, 1960–1970
World War II service and the GI Bill: New evidence on selection and veterans’ outcomes from linked census records
We examine new datasets of records linked between the 1940 and 1950 US censuses to characterize selection into military service during World War II and to analyze differences in veterans’ post-war educational and labor market outcomes relative to nonveterans. Motivated by potentially disparate selection into and effects of service, we pay particular attention to groups distinguished by age, pre-war educational attainment, race, and nativity. We f…
The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South: A guide and interpretation
Looking Forward: Positive and Normative Views of Economic History's Future
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Labor Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1940-1960
By the time Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 98% of non-southern blacks (40% of all blacks) already resided in states with "fair employment" laws prohibiting labor market discrimination. Using census data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, the author assesses the impact of fair employment legislation on black workers' relative income, unemployment, labor force participation, migration, and occupational and industrial distr…
Black Americans' Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records
Large and persistent racial disparities in land-based wealth were an important legacy of the Reconstruction era. To assess how these disparities were transmitted intergenerationally, we build a dataset to observe Black households' landholdings in 1880 alongside a sample of White households. We then link sons from all households to the 1900 census records to observe their economic and human capital outcomes. We show that Black landowners, relative…
The Contribution from Shipping Emissions to Air Quality and Acid Deposition in Europe
A global three-dimensional Lagrangian chemistry-transport model STOCHEM is used to describe the European regional acid deposition and ozone air quality impacts along the Atlantic Ocean seaboard of Europe, from the SO2, NOx, VOCs and CO emissions from international shipping under conditions appropriate to the year 2000. Model-derived total sulfur deposition from international shipping reaches over 200 mg S m-2 yr-1 over the southwestern approaches…
Pastoral-diagnostic understanding of a counseling case
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965
Labor Mobility, Market Integration, and Wage Convergence in Late 19th Century India
Labor Mobility in American and Indian Economic History
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
African-American Economic Mobility in the 1940s: A Portrait from the Palmer Survey
I use retrospective work histories from a unique dataset to follow workers in six cities through occupational, industrial, and geographic moves, thereby characterizing aspects of black economic mobility during the 1940s that cannot be viewed through the Census data. Relatively few migrants were drawn directly from the southern agricultural sector. Black occupational upgrades were larger than white upgrades on average but black upgrades were small…
Race and Home Ownership: A Century-Long View
Capital-Goods Prices and Investment, 1870-1950
The relative price of capital goods, an important component of the user cost of capital, has rarely been incorporated into comparative studies of long-run capital accumulation. This article constructs and explores a data set for capital-goods and equipment prices covering the 1870–1950 period for 11 OECD countries. We document substantial differences across countries in the relative prices of capital goods, but also find convergence in those pric…
The political economy of state-level fair employment laws, 1940–1964
The Labor Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1940-1960
By the time Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 98% of non-southern blacks (40% of all blacks) already resided in states with "fair employment" laws prohibiting labor market discrimination. Using census data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, the author assesses the impact of fair employment legislation on black workers' relative income, unemployment, labor force participation, migration, and occupational and industrial distr…
The housing market impact of state-level anti-discrimination laws, 1960–1970
Race, Labor Markets, and Social Disorder in Twentieth-Century America: An Introduction
In 1900, approximately 10 percent of African Americans resided in central cities; by 1970, nearly 60 percent did, far higher than the corresponding proportion of whites. This geographic redistribution was central to the twentieth-century African American economic experience, with connections radiating in innumerable directions: to labor markets, housing markets, educational systems, the civil rights movement, and public policy responses to discri…
The Contribution from Shipping Emissions to Air Quality and Acid Deposition in Europe
A global three-dimensional Lagrangian chemistry-transport model STOCHEM is used to describe the European regional acid deposition and ozone air quality impacts along the Atlantic Ocean seaboard of Europe, from the SO2, NOx, VOCs and CO emissions from international shipping under conditions appropriate to the year 2000. Model-derived total sulfur deposition from international shipping reaches over 200 mg S m-2 yr-1 over the southwestern approaches…
The Contribution from Shipping Emissions to Air Quality and Acid Deposition in Europe
A global three-dimensional Lagrangian chemistry-transport model STOCHEM is used to describe the European regional acid deposition and ozone air quality impacts along the Atlantic Ocean seaboard of Europe, from the SO2, NOx, VOCs and CO emissions from international shipping under conditions appropriate to the year 2000. Model-derived total sulfur deposition from international shipping reaches over 200 mg S m(-2) yr(-1) over the southwestern approa…
The Political Economy of State Fair Housing Laws before 1968
The combined influence of the Great Migration of African Americans and the civil rights movement propelled the drive for fair housing legislation, which attempted to curb overt discrimination in housing markets. This drive culminated in the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968. By that time, 57 percent of the U.S. population and 41 percent of the African American population already resided in states with a fair housing law. This article uses hazard m…
The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s
The 1940s marked a turning point in the labor market outcomes of African-American women. They experienced large wage gains relative to white women, sharp declines in agricultural and domestic service work, and significant increases in formal sector employment. Using a semiparametric decomposition technique, we assess the influence of changes in productive and personal characteristics, in workers' distribution across occupations and locations, and…
The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values
In the 1960s many American cities experienced violent, race-related civil disturbances. This article examines census data from 1950 to 1980 to measure the riots' impact on the value of central-city residential property, and especially on black-owned property. Both OLS and IV estimates indicate that the riots depressed the median value of black-owned property between 1960 and 1970, with little or no rebound in the 1970s. Census tract data for a sm…
A neighborhood-level view of riots, property values, and population loss: Cleveland 1950–1980
Looking Forward: Positive and Normative Views of Economic History's Future
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants
We construct datasets of linked census records to study internal migrants' selection and destination choices during the first decades of the "Great Migration" (1910-1930). We study both whites and blacks and intra- and inter-regional migration. While there is some evidence of positive selection, the degree of selection was small and participation in migration was widespread. Differences in background, including initial location, cannot account fo…
Unions, workers, and wages at the peak of the American labor movement
The economic assimilation of Irish Famine migrants to the United States
Unions and the Great Compression of wage inequality in the US at mid-century: Evidence From Local Labour Markets
This article tests whether places with higher exposure to unionization during the 1940s, due to their pre-existing industrial composition, tended to have larger declines in wage inequality, conditional on local economic and demographic observables and regional trends. We find a strong negative correlation between exposure to unionization and changes in local inequality from 1940-50 and 1940-60. This does not appear to be underpinned by skill-spec…
The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South: A guide and interpretation
Farm-to-School programmes, benefits, health outcomes and barriers: A structured literature review
Introduction: A common refrain in public health and medicine concerns the rapidly rising incidence of obesity and metabolic-like syndromes over the last two decades. A plethora of data suggests there are many roots to the issue and what to do about it. The rise of childhood obesity and the growing incidence of adult endocrine diseases like type 2 diabetes mellitus in paediatric populations are the most concerning. One of the solutions that aims t…
Black Americans' Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records
Large and persistent racial disparities in land-based wealth were an important legacy of the Reconstruction era. To assess how these disparities were transmitted intergenerationally, we build a dataset to observe Black households' landholdings in 1880 alongside a sample of White households. We then link sons from all households to the 1900 census records to observe their economic and human capital outcomes. We show that Black landowners, relative…
Economics (22 works) · Political science (14 works) · Geography (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Population (11 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Census (8 works) · Demography (8 works)