African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility Since 1880

NSF support (SES 1156085 and 1156057) is gratefully acknowledged, as are discussant comments from Jeff Biddle and Robert Margo; comments from conference participants at the Southern Economic Association, American Economic Association, and Economic History Association annual meetings; and comments from seminar participants at Auburn University, Florida State University, the Oxford-Warwick-LSE Workshop, Queen’s University, Tulane University, University of Arizona, UCLA, UC-Merced, University of Colorado, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, and Vanderbilt University. Sharonda Adams, Lauren Bamonte, Ye Gu, Nick Holtkamp, Blane Kassa, Dinan Liang, Bryson Lype, Mason Reasner, Shea Sabin, Musa Subramaniam, and Jim Teal provided excellent research assistance. The Grey and Dornbush gifts at Vanderbilt University and Office of Research at the University of Tennessee have provided research support. Brant Callaway, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Laura Salisbury, Richard Sutch, Zach Ward, and Ariell Zimran provided helpful insights. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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