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View article: Replication package for: How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities
Replication package for: How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities Open
The code in this replication package replicates *How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities*, RESTUD forthcoming. All code is in R. It first builds the analysis data from several raw data sources. It then produces all …
View article: Replication package for: How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities
Replication package for: How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities Open
The code in this replication package replicates *How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities*, RESTUD forthcoming. All code is in R. It first builds the analysis data from several raw data sources. It then produces all …
View article: Replication package for: How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities
Replication package for: How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities Open
The code in this replication package replicates *How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities*, RESTUD forthcoming. All code is in R. It first builds the analysis data from several raw data sources. It then produces all …
View article: School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic
School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic Open
During the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic, many local authorities made the controversial decision to close schools. We use newly digitized data from newspaper archives on the length of school closures for 165 large U.S. cities during the 191…
View article: The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War Open
The nullification of slave wealth after the US Civil War (1861–1865) was one of the largest episodes of wealth compression in history. We document that White Southern households that owned more slaves in 1860 lost substantially more wealth…
View article: The Effect of Immigration on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure
The Effect of Immigration on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure Open
In the 1920s, the United States substantially reduced immigration by imposing country-specific entry quotas. We compare local labor markets differentially exposed to the quotas due to variation in the national origin mix of their immigrant…
View article: Replication package for: Killer Incentives: Rivalry, Performance and Risk-Taking among German Fighter Pilots, 1939-45
Replication package for: Killer Incentives: Rivalry, Performance and Risk-Taking among German Fighter Pilots, 1939-45 Open
This package includes all the data and code necessary to reproduce the the figures and tables in Ager et al. (forthcoming). "Killer Incentives: Rivalry, Performance and Risk-Taking among German Fighter Pilots, 1939-45." Review of Economic …
View article: Replication package for: Killer Incentives: Rivalry, Performance and Risk-Taking among German Fighter Pilots, 1939-45
Replication package for: Killer Incentives: Rivalry, Performance and Risk-Taking among German Fighter Pilots, 1939-45 Open
This package includes all the data and code necessary to reproduce the the figures and tables in Ager et al. (forthcoming). "Killer Incentives: Rivalry, Performance and Risk-Taking among German Fighter Pilots, 1939-45." Review of Economic …
View article: Froebel'S Gifts: How the Kindergarten Movement Changed the American Family
Froebel'S Gifts: How the Kindergarten Movement Changed the American Family Open
Public educators and philanthropists in the late 19th century United States promoted the establishment of kindergartens in cities as a remedy for the social problems associated with industrialization and immigration. Between 1880 and 1910,…
View article: The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure
The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure Open
In the 1920s, the United States substantially reduced immigrant entry by imposing countryspecific quotas.We compare local labor markets with more or less exposure to the national quotas due to differences in initial immigrant settlement.A …
View article: Structural Change and the Fertility Transition
Structural Change and the Fertility Transition Open
This paper provides new insights into the relationship between structural change and the fertility transition. We exploit the spread of an agricultural pest in the American South in the 1890s as plausibly exogenous variation in agricultura…
View article: Replication data for: Structural Change and the Fertility Transition, Ager and Herz (2019), forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics
Replication data for: Structural Change and the Fertility Transition, Ager and Herz (2019), forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics Open
STATA code and data to replicate Structural Change and the Fertility Transition, Review of Economics and Statistics, MS21723 Ager, Philipp, Herz, Benedikt, and Brueckner, Markus, (2020) “Structural Change and the Fertility Transition.” Rev…
View article: How the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Shaped Economic Activity in the American West
How the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Shaped Economic Activity in the American West Open
Replication package for "How the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake ShapedEconomic Activity in the American West" by Philipp Ager, Katherine A. Eriksson, Casper Worm Hansen and Lars Lønstrup. We refer to the paper, and its Online Appendix, for …
View article: The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners After the Civil War
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners After the Civil War Open
The nullification of slave wealth after the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) was one of the largest episodes of wealth compressions in history. We document that white Southern households holding more slave assets in 1860 lost substantially more we…
View article: Shaking Up the Equilibrium: Natural Disasters, Economic Activity, and Immigration
Shaking Up the Equilibrium: Natural Disasters, Economic Activity, and Immigration Open
This paper examines the long-run effects on the spatial distribution of economic activity caused by historical shocks. Using variation in the potential damage intensity of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake across cities in the American Wes…
View article: Killer incentives: status competition and pilot performance during World War II
Killer incentives: status competition and pilot performance during World War II Open
A growing theoretical and empirical literature shows that public recognition can lead to greater effort amongst employees. At the same time, status competition can be associated with excessive expenditure on status goods, higher risk of ba…