Richard B Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3097494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard B Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard B |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Long-Run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment: Evidence from the Boll Weevil
The boll weevil spread across the South from 1892 to 1922 with devastating effect on cotton cultivation. The resulting shift away from this child labor-intensive crop lowered the opportunity cost of school attendance. We investigate the insect's long-run effect on educational attainment using a sample of adults from the 1940 census linked back to their childhood census records. Both white and black children who were young (ages 4 to 9) when the w…
Finding the fat: The relative impact of budget fluctuations on African-American schools
From the Field to the Classroom: The Boll Weevil's Impact on Education in Rural Georgia
I examine how production of a child labor-intensive crop (cotton) affected schooling in the early twentieth-century American South. Because cotton production may be endogenous, presence of an agricultural pest (the boll weevil) is employed as an instrument. Using newly collected county-level data for Georgia, I find a 10 percent reduction in cotton caused a 2 percent increase in black enrollment rate, but had little effect on white enrollment. Th…
From the Field to the Classroom: The Boll Weevil's Impact on Education in Rural Georgia
I examine how production of a child labor-intensive crop (cotton) affected schooling in the early twentieth-century American South. Because cotton production may be endogenous, presence of an agricultural pest (the boll weevil) is employed as an instrument. Using newly collected county-level data for Georgia, I find a 10 percent reduction in cotton caused a 2 percent increase in black enrollment rate, but had little effect on white enrollment. Th…
Long-Run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment: Evidence from the Boll Weevil
The boll weevil spread across the South from 1892 to 1922 with devastating effect on cotton cultivation. The resulting shift away from this child labor-intensive crop lowered the opportunity cost of school attendance. We investigate the insect's long-run effect on educational attainment using a sample of adults from the 1940 census linked back to their childhood census records. Both white and black children who were young (ages 4 to 9) when the w…
From the Field to the Classroom: The Boll Weevil's Impact on Education in Rural Georgia
I examine how production of a child labor-intensive crop (cotton) affected schooling in the early twentieth-century American South. Because cotton production may be endogenous, presence of an agricultural pest (the boll weevil) is employed as an instrument. Using newly collected county-level data for Georgia, I find a 10 percent reduction in cotton caused a 2 percent increase in black enrollment rate, but had little effect on white enrollment. Th…
Finding the fat: The relative impact of budget fluctuations on African-American schools
Long-Run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment: Evidence from the Boll Weevil
The boll weevil spread across the South from 1892 to 1922 with devastating effect on cotton cultivation. The resulting shift away from this child labor-intensive crop lowered the opportunity cost of school attendance. We investigate the insect's long-run effect on educational attainment using a sample of adults from the 1940 census linked back to their childhood census records. Both white and black children who were young (ages 4 to 9) when the w…
Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Agricultural economics (2 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Agronomy (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Boll weevil (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)