ABSTRACT The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the looting, burning, and leveling of
35 square blocks of a once-thriving Black neighborhood. Not only did this lead to severe …

A recent literature has used a historical perspective to better understand fundamental
questions of urban economics. However, a wide range of historical documents of …

Recent studies use names—first and surnames—to estimate intergenerational mobility in
sources that lack direct family links. While generating novel evidence on intergenerational …

The IPUMS Multigenerational Longitudinal Panel (MLP) is a longitudinal population panel
that links American censuses, surveys, administrative sources, and vital records spanning …

How does handwriting legibility affect the performance of algorithms that link individuals
across census rounds? We propose a measure of legibility, which we implement at scale for …

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While linking records across large administrative datasets [“big data”] has the potential to
revolutionize empirical social science research, many administrative data files do not have …

With only a few exceptions, the historical study of individual-level correlates of child mortality
in the United States has been limited to the period surrounding the turn of the twentieth …

Children require a large amount of time, effort, and resources to raise. Physical help,
financial contributions, medical care, and other types of assistance from kin and social …