The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African Americans: Evidence from the Deep South.
The Great Migration-the massive migration of African Americans out of the rural South to largely urban locations in the North, Midwest, and West-was a landmark event in U.S.


METHODS
Our paper shows that this migration increased mortality of African Americans born in the early twentieth century South. This inference comes from an analysis that uses proximity of birthplace to railroad lines as an instrument for migration.
University of Chicago, 1155 East 60th Street, Chicago IL 60637, and NORC ( danblack@uchicago.edu ).
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Duke University, 419 Chapel Drive, Box 90097 Durham NC 27708, and NORC ( seth.sanders@duke.edu ).
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University of Michigan, 238 Lorch Hall, 611 Tappan Ave., Ann Arbor MI 48109 ( evanjt@umich.edu ).
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Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pitsburgh PA 15232, NORC, and NBER ( lt20@andrew.cmu.edu ).
Lowell J
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