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.

  • Samuel M. Otterstrom, Joseph Price, and Jacob Van Leeuwen. “Using Linked Census Records to Study Shrinking Cities in the United States from 1900 to 1940.” The Professional Geographer, 74(1), 88-101. 2021.

Working Papers

  • Anna Aizer, Gabrielle Grafton, and Santiago Pérez. “Daughters as Safety Net? Family Responses to Parental Employment Shocks: Evidence from Alcohol Prohibition.” NBER Working Paper #33346. January 2025.

  • Priti Kalsi and Zachary Ward. “The Gilded Age and Beyond: The Persistence of Elite Wealth in American History.” NBER Working Paper #33355. January 2025.

  • Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, and Tamar Matiashvili. “Intergenerational Mobility over Two Centuries.” NBER Working Paper #33330. January 2025.

  • Zachary Bleemer and Sara Quincy. “Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900.” Working Paper. December 2024.

  • Ran Abramitzky, Lena Greska, Santiago Pérez, Joseph Price, Carlo Schwarz, and Fabian Waldinger. “Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia.” NBER Working Paper #33289. December 2024.

  • Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price. “The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socio-Economic Origins of the US Educational Elite Over a Century.” NBER Working Paper #33164. November 2024.

  • Taylor Jaworski, Erik O. Kimbrough, and Nicole Saito. “How Important Are Cultural Frictions for Internal Migration? Evidence from the Nineteenth Century United States.” NBER Working Paper #33192. November 2024.

  • Anthony Bald. “The Birth of an Occupation: Professional Nursing in the Era of Public Health.” JMP, Harvard University. October 2024. Most recent version available here.

  • Amy Kim and Carolyn Tsao. “The Effects of Prohibiting Marriage Bars: The Case of U.S. Teachers.” October 2024.

  • 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.” NBER Working Paper #31671. July 2024. Most recent version available here.

  • William Mark Cockriel. “Machines Eating Men: Shoemakers and Their Children After the McKay Stitcher.” Working Paper. 2024.

  • 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.

  • Hugo Reichardt. “Essays on Economic Inequality and Mobility.” Doctoral Dissertation. London School of Economics and Political Science. May 2024.

  • 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.

  • Joseph Price, Christian vom Lehn, and Riley Wilson. “The Winners and Losers of Immigration: Evidence from Linked Historical Data.” Working Paper Series. May 2020. NBER Working Paper #27156.