| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 141-156 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Historical Methods |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1996 |
Funding
Financial support was provided by the National Science Foundation (Grant No. SES-9309689) and a faculty research fellowship from the John M. Olin Foundation. Extremely conscientious research assistance was provided by Katie Holsinger, Taylor Holsinger, Shannon Holsinger, Angela Kehl, Brian Kehl, Jefferson Call, Amber Stan; and Mark Wolthuis. I am grateful to Steven Ruggles and the University of Minnesota’s Social History Research Laboratory for providing a pre-release version of the 1850 Public Use Microdata Sample, Clayne Pope and the Brigham Young University Economics Department for their help in the collation of the 1860 census index that made this project possible, and David Weir for helpful comments. Previous versions of this article were presented at the National Bureau of Economic ResearchlDevelopment of the American Economy Program’s Summer Institute in 1994 and 1995. The sample described here will be available on the World Wide Web site maintained by the North-western University Economic Department at the Web address http://www. econ.nwu.edu/faculty/ferrie/data/linkedPUMiSn December 1996.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- History