Bibliography

Below is a running list of publications and working papers that use the Census Tree links. To include your work in this list, please use our Contact form.

Published Articles

  • Joseph Price, Kasey Buckles, Jacob Van Leeuwen, and Isaac Riley. “Combining Family History and Machine Learning to Link Historical Records: The Census Tree Data Set.” Explorations in Economic History, 80, 101391. 2021.

  • Adrian Haws, David R. Just, and Joseph Price. “Who (Actually) Gets the Farm? Intergenerational Farm Succession in the United States.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming. 2024.

Working Papers

  • Jacob Van Leeuwen. “The Long Run Effects of Anti-Immigrant Institutional Discrimination: Evidence from Philadelphia.” Working Paper. October 2024. Most recent version available here.

  • Dongkyu Yang. “Time to Accumulate: The Great Migration and the Rise of the American South.” Working Paper. September 2024. Most recent version available here.

  • Philipp Ager and Viktor Malein. “The Long-term Effects of Charity Nurseries: Evidence from Early 20th Century New York.” European Historical Economics Society. August 2024. EHES Working Paper #263.

  • Daniela Vidart. “Revisiting the Link Between Electrification and Fertility: Evidence from the Early 20th Century United States.” July 2024. University of Connecticut Department of Economics Working Paper Series No. 2024-03.

  • Kasey Buckles, Adrian Haws, Joseph Price, and Haley Wilbert. “Breakthroughs in Historical Record Linking Using Genealogy Data: The Census Tree Project.” July 2024. NBER Working Paper #31671. Most recent version available here.

  • Abhay Aneja, Silvia Farina, and Guo Xu. “Beyond the War: Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms.” Working Paper Series. June 2024. NBER Working Paper #32639.

  • Jennifer Kowalski. “Essays in American Economic History.” Doctoral Dissertation, Stanford University. May 2024. Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global (31460296).

  • Angela Cools, Jared Grooms, Krzysztof Karbownik, Siobhan M. O’Keefe, Joseph Price, and Anthony Wray. “Birth Order in the Very Long-Run: Estimating Firstborn Premiums between 1850 and 1940.” May 2024. NBER Working Paper #32407.

  • John M. Chapel. “Essays on Wellbeing Disparities in the United States and their Social Determinants.” May 2024. Accessible here.

  • Kasey Buckles, Joseph Price, Zach Ward, and Haley Wilbert. “Family Trees and Falling Apples: Intergenerational Mobility Estimates from U.S. Genealogy Data.” Working paper (2023). Presentation at 2023 NBER Summer Institute can be viewed here.

  • Cache Ellsworth, Ian Fillmore, Adrian Haws, and Joseph Price. “The Long-Run Effects of Parental Wealth Shocks on Children.” December 2023. Accessible here.

  • Ran Abramitzky, Jacob Conway, Roy Mill, and Luke Stein. “The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone: Evidence from African-American Siblings in 1870–1940.” March 2023. NBER Working Paper #31016.

  • Samuel Bazzi, Abel Brodeur, Martin Fiszbein, and Joanne Haddad. “Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States.” Working Paper. Working Paper Series. March 2023. NBER Working Paper #31079.