Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Economic Status of Free Blacks, 1850-1860

这个项目开始填补科学文献中一个令人困惑的空白，通过对黑人和白人家庭的财富积累模式进行比较研究，这可以从1850年和1860年的人口手稿表中了解到。为了更好地识别人口流动的暗流及其可能的解释，正在编制一个纵向数据集，将美国人口普查时间表中记录的大西洋中部家庭样本联系起来。现代统计方法将用于估计财富所有权和财富流动的社会经济差异模型。研究结果将对以下方面有价值：(1)寻求理解财富不平等历史方面的经济学家；(2)社会学家分析社会经济差异与社会结果之间的关系；(3)想要解决财富积累模式中社会经济差异的政策制定者。

This project begins to fill a puzzling gap in the scientific literature byundertaking a comparative study of wealth accumulation patterns of blackand of white households, as can be learned from the manuscript schedules ofpopulation for 1850 and 1860. To better identify undercurrent of movementand their possible explanations, a longitudinal dataset is being compiledthat links samples of Mid-Atlantic households recorded in the US censusmanuscript schedules. Modern statistical methods will be used to estimatemodels of socioeconomic differences in wealth ownership and wealthmobility. The research findings will be valuable to: (1) economists whoseek to understand historical aspects of wealth inequality; (2) socialscientists analyzing the relationship between socioeconomic differences andsocial outcomes; and (3) policy makers who want to address socioeconomicdifferences in wealth accumulation patterns.