The Economic Effects of American Slavery: Tests at the Border | Hoover Institution

Crisp empirical research on slavery’s long-run economic impacts using border-based identification.

Panelexpertamerican slaveryborder discontinuitycausal inferenceeconomic historyhuman capitalinequality persistenceHoyt Bleakley

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