The geography of opportunity after the Civil War
Black and white Americans’ intra- and intergenerational mobility into property ownership
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9814401 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William J Collins (0000-0002-9647-4408, corresponding author), Nicholas C Holtkamp |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Pages | 101750 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Explorations in Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-4983 • E-ISSN: 1090-2457 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.eeh.2026.101750 |
| OpenAlex | W7132830184 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 50 |
Human geography · Inequality · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Property (philosophy · Property value · White (mutation · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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Causal Mediation Analysis
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How Well Do Automated Linking Methods Perform? Lessons from US Historical Data
Frontier Culture
Automated Linking of Historical Data
A Different Land of Opportunity
Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States
When the Levee Breaks
Poorly Measured Confounders are More Useful on the Left than on the Right
“The Righteous and Reasonable Ambition to Become a Landholder”
Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
The long reach of cotton in the US South
Converging to a National Lynching Database
The Promise of Land for the Freedmen
The U.S. Structural Transformation and Regional Convergence
The economic origins of the postwar southern elite
Accumulation and discrimination in the postbellum South
Recent Work on Reconstruction
Democratization, De Facto Power, and Taxation
White land, black labor, and agricultural stagnation
White Supremacy, Terrorism, and the Failure of Reconstruction in the United States
Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality
From the Field to the Classroom
Internal Migration in the United States
Black Americans' Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation
Do Black Politicians Matter? Evidence from Reconstruction
Race, Literacy, and Real Estate Transactions in the Postbellum South
Patterns of Farm Rental in the Georgia Cotton Belt, 1880-1900
Whitelashing
Occupational Mobility of Black Men
The Accumulation of Wealth by Black Georgians, 1890-1915
Machinery Has Completely Taken Over
Slavery, Reconstruction, and Bureaucratic Capacity in the American South
Persistent Advantage or Disadvantage
Changes in the Socioeconomic Stratification of the Races, 1962-73
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |