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Joseph P. Ferrie

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Mailing address:
Department of Economics
Northwestern University
2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA

My office is Room 340 in Arthur Andersen Hall

Telephone: 847-491-8210
Facsimile: 847-491-7001
e-mail: ferrie@northwestern.edu

• "The End of American Exceptionalism: Occupational and Geographic Mobility in the U.S., 1850-2000" (October, 2004)
  
• "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm [When They've Seen Schenectady]? Rural-to-Urban Migration in 19th Century America, 1850-70"
• "The Impact of Immigration on Natives in the Antebellum U.S. Labor Market, 1850-60."
• "The Law and Labor Strife in the U.S., 1881-1894." (with Janet Currie)
• "Immigrants and Natives: Comparative Economic Performance in the U.S., 1850-60 and 1970-80."(forthcoming, Research in Labor Economics 16 1997).
• "A New Sample of Males Linked from the Public Use Micro Sample of the 1850 U.S. Federal Census of Population to the 1860 U.S. Federal Census Manuscript Schedules." (Historical Methods Fall, 1996).
• "The Entry of Antebellum European Immigrants Into the U.S. Labor Market, 1840-60." (Explorations in Economic History, July 1997)
• "Migration to the Frontier in Mid-Nineteenth Century America: A Re-Examination of Turner's 'Safety Valve'" (prepared for the World Congress of Cliometrics, July 1997, Munich, Germany)
• "A New View of the Irish in America: Economic Performance and the Impact of Place of Origin, 1850-1920." (prepared for The Scattering: Ireland and the Irish Diaspora, A Comparative Perspective, University College Cork, Ireland, 9/24-27)
• "The Rich and the Dead: Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the U.S., 1850-60." Forthcoming chapter in Dora Costa (ed.), Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
• "Internal Migration." Forthcoming chapter in Richard Sutch, Susan Carter, and Robert Bard, Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• "Labour Mobility." Forthcoming entry in Joel Mokyr (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). (with Jason Long)

• My own sample of 4,938 males linked from the 1850 PUMS (Public Use Sample from the 1850 Federal Census of Population) to the manuscript schedules of the 1860 Federal Census of Population. The sample is described in "A New Sample of Males Linked from the Public Use Micro Sample of the 1850 U.S. Federal Census of Population to the 1860 U.S. Federal Census Manuscript Sche/dules" (Historical Methods Fall, 1996).
• My own sample of males linked from the manuscript schedules of the 1860 Federal Census of Population to the manuscript schedules of the 1870 Federal Census of Population.
• The University of Minnesota's IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Micro Samples: Public Use Samples from the 1850-1990 Federal Censuses of Population.
• The U.S. Census Bureau Data Server
• State and County Level Census Data from the U.S. Census: Historical Demographic, Economic and Social Data of the U.S., 1790-1960 from University of Virginia
• 2% Sample from the 1851 U.K. census

Economics 323-1(Fall 2005-06) Economic History of the U.S. to 1865

Economics 420-1 (Fall 2005-06) American Economic History

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