This paper reviews the literature in historical record linkage in the United States and
examines the performance of widely used record-linking algorithms and common variations …

For the past 80 years, social scientists have been linking historical censuses across time to
study economic and geographic mobility. In recent decades, the quantity of historical census …

This article shows how the migration of millions of Southern whites in the twentieth century
shaped the cultural and political landscape across the United States. Racially and …

The nullification of slave wealth after the US Civil War (1861–1865) was one of the largest
episodes of wealth compression in history. We document that White Southern households …

Linking individuals across historical datasets relies on information such as name and age
that is both non-unique and prone to enumeration and transcription errors. These errors …

We link newly digitized personnel records of the US government for 1907–1921 to census
data to study the segregation of the civil service by race under President Woodrow Wilson …

A rapidly growing body of research examines the relationship between migration and
institutions. Three strands of studies can be distinguished. Some studies focused on the role …

New large-scale linked data are revolutionizing quantitative history and demography. This
paper proposes two complementary strategies for improving inference with linked historical …

This paper shows how white migration out of the postbellum South diffused and entrenched
Confederate culture across the United States at a critical juncture of westward expansion …

After adjusting for sample-selection bias, I find a net decline in average stature of 0.64
inches in the birth cohorts of 1832–1860 in the United States. This result supports the …