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2“...Lincoln's election produced Southern secession, war, and abolition. Using a new dataset on slave sales, we examine connections between news and slave prices...”
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3by Pritchett, Jonathan Freudenberger, Herman Published in The Journal of economic history (01.03.2016)“...Richard Steckel and Nicolas Ziebarth (2016) find that biases in height by age imposed by traders versus non-traders were negligible. Importantly, their method...”
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4by Pritchett, Jonathan Pritchett, Jonathan Hayes, Jessica Hayes, Jessica Published in Cliometrica (01.05.2016)“...Although plantation records indicate that many slaves in the southern USA were artisans and craftsmen, relatively few slaves were recorded as such on the New...”
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5“...When imported slaves were first sold in New Orleans, buyers were unaware of the slaves’ unobservable characteristics. In time, the new owners learned more...”
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6by Calomiris, Charles W Pritchett, Jonathan B Published in The Journal of economic history (01.12.2009)“...We investigate determinants of slave family discounts in the New Orleans slave market. We find large price discounts for families unrelated to scale effects,...”
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7“...Prior to the Civil War, many hospitals in the southern United States treated both free and slave patients. In this article we develop a model for the selective...”
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8“...Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of free and enslaved patients. Despite a...”
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9“...Prior to the Civil War, many hospitals in the southern United States treated both free and slave patients. In this article we develop a model for the selective...”
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10by Pritchett, Jonathan B Published in The Journal of Economic History (01.06.2001)“...“It is impossible to say definitely what percentage of the movement of slaves to the lower South was comprised in the domestic slave trade.…” L. C. GrayGray,...”
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12“...We estimate marriage rates for enslaved African Americans using unique hospital records that report marital status for both free and enslaved patients. We find...”
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14“...During the summer of 1853, New Orleans experienced one of the worst epidemics in the history of the United States. Immigrants accounted for a vast majority of...”
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15by Murray, John E Olmstead, Alan L Logan, Trevon D Pritchett, Jonathan B Rousseau, Peter L Published in The Journal of economic history (01.09.2015)
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16“...We investigate the determinants of slave family discounts, using data from the New Orleans slave market. We find large price discounts for families which...”
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19by Pritchett, Jonathan Published in The Journal of Economic History (01.03.2016)“... Richard Steckel and Nicolas Ziebarth (2016) find that biases in height by age imposed by traders versus non-traders were negligible. Importantly, their...”
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20by Jonathan B. Pritchett Richard M. Chamberlain Published in The Quarterly journal of economics (01.05.1993)“...Greenwald and Glasspiegel argue that adverse selection depressed the market prices of slaves, causing current researchers to overestimate the rate of return...”