Did Segregation Reduce Lethal Violence Against Southern Blacks? : A Generalized Difference-in-Differences Approach to Understand Lynchings and Executions in the US South

Up until the mid 1860s, an overwhelming majority of blacks in the US South were held in chattel slavery, from which they were freed after a Civil War (1861-1865). A recurring argument in institutional economics is that the institution of slavery did not disappear, but took other forms, e.g. segregat...

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Main Author: Forslund, Eva
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen 2020
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-415283