Marriage, migration and work: three essays on mobility in the United States, 1850-1930

This dissertation studies three forms of mobility in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first chapter uses newly collected data from Union Army widows' pension files to isolate the causal effect of women's income on their decisions about marriag...

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Main Author: Salisbury, Laura
Language:en_US
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/15250