Marianne Wanamaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5808184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marianne Wanamaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marianne |
| FAMILY NAME | Wanamaker |
| SIGNATURE | WANAMAKER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2611-6979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Black Americans' Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation
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…
Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men
For 40 years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively monitored hundreds of adult black men with syphilis despite the availability of effective treatment. The study’s methods have become synonymous with exploitation and mistreatment by the medical profession. To identify the study’s effects on the behavior and health of older black men, we use an interacted difference-in-difference-in-differences model, comparing olde…
Years of Economic Progress for African American Men
This article uses data on relative incomes to measure the economic convergence (or lack thereof) of African American men over time, and reviews current research in economic history on the struggle for economic equality for African American men in the United States since the end of the Civil War in 1865. The contents of this paper were originally presented at the University of Stellenbosch Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP) Lectu…
Returns to school resources in the Jim Crow South
The Great Migration in Black and White
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…
Fertility and the Price of Children
Theories of the demographic transition often center on the rising price of children. A model of fertility derived from household production in the antebellum United States contains both own children and slaves as inputs. Changes in slaveholdings beget changes in the marginal product of the slaveowners' own children and, hence, their price. I use panel data on slaveowning households between 1850 and 1870 to measure the slaveowners' own fertility r…
Industrialization and Fertility in the Nineteenth Century
Economists frequently hypothesize that industrialization contributed to the United States' nineteenth-century fertility decline. I exploit the circumstances surrounding industrialization in South Carolina between 1881 and 1900 to show that the establishment of textile mills coincided with a 6-10 percent fertility reduction. Migrating households are responsible for most of the observed decline. Higher rates of textile employment and child mortalit…
The Great Migration in Black and White
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…
Industrialization and Fertility in the Nineteenth Century
Economists frequently hypothesize that industrialization contributed to the United States' nineteenth-century fertility decline. I exploit the circumstances surrounding industrialization in South Carolina between 1881 and 1900 to show that the establishment of textile mills coincided with a 6-10 percent fertility reduction. Migrating households are responsible for most of the observed decline. Higher rates of textile employment and child mortalit…
Returns to school resources in the Jim Crow South
Black Americans' Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation
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…
Years of Economic Progress for African American Men
This article uses data on relative incomes to measure the economic convergence (or lack thereof) of African American men over time, and reviews current research in economic history on the struggle for economic equality for African American men in the United States since the end of the Civil War in 1865. The contents of this paper were originally presented at the University of Stellenbosch Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP) Lectu…
Fertility and the Price of Children
Theories of the demographic transition often center on the rising price of children. A model of fertility derived from household production in the antebellum United States contains both own children and slaves as inputs. Changes in slaveholdings beget changes in the marginal product of the slaveowners' own children and, hence, their price. I use panel data on slaveowning households between 1850 and 1870 to measure the slaveowners' own fertility r…
Industrialization and Fertility in the Nineteenth Century
Economists frequently hypothesize that industrialization contributed to the United States' nineteenth-century fertility decline. I exploit the circumstances surrounding industrialization in South Carolina between 1881 and 1900 to show that the establishment of textile mills coincided with a 6-10 percent fertility reduction. Migrating households are responsible for most of the observed decline. Higher rates of textile employment and child mortalit…
Fertility and the Price of Children
Theories of the demographic transition often center on the rising price of children. A model of fertility derived from household production in the antebellum United States contains both own children and slaves as inputs. Changes in slaveholdings beget changes in the marginal product of the slaveowners' own children and, hence, their price. I use panel data on slaveowning households between 1850 and 1870 to measure the slaveowners' own fertility r…
The Great Migration in Black and White
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…
Years of Economic Progress for African American Men
This article uses data on relative incomes to measure the economic convergence (or lack thereof) of African American men over time, and reviews current research in economic history on the struggle for economic equality for African American men in the United States since the end of the Civil War in 1865. The contents of this paper were originally presented at the University of Stellenbosch Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP) Lectu…
Returns to school resources in the Jim Crow South
Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men
For 40 years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively monitored hundreds of adult black men with syphilis despite the availability of effective treatment. The study’s methods have become synonymous with exploitation and mistreatment by the medical profession. To identify the study’s effects on the behavior and health of older black men, we use an interacted difference-in-difference-in-differences model, comparing olde…
Black Americans' Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation
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 (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works)