Tools of racial control: an economic analysis of laws vs. violence

该项目旨在发展并实证检验一种种族暴力理论，该理论预测，随着种族主义法律的取消，种族暴力会增加。为了验证这一假设，我将构建一个新的、全面的数据集，记录南北战争后美国的私刑和种族主义立法。在美国，新获得自由的黑人获得了极大的自由，但也经历了广泛的暴力。实证分析提出在这种情况下确定种族暴力的一种新的机制：在南北战争期间对白人性别比例造成冲击并在此后扭曲婚姻市场的地区，种族控制的愿望。这些发现旨在为我们理解当今美国和澳大利亚的种族暴力做出重大贡献。

This project aims to develop and empirically test a theory of racial violence, which predicts that as racist laws are removed, racial violence increases. To test this hypothesis, I will construct a new, comprehensive dataset of lynchings and racist legislation in post-Civil War America, where newly freed blacks gained significant freedoms, but also experienced widespread violence. The empirical analysis proposes to identify a novel mechanism for racial violence in this context: a desire for racial control in areas that incurred shocks to the white sex ratio during the Civil War and distorted marriage markets thereafter. The findings aim to significantly contribute to our understanding of racial violence in both the US and Australia today.