DeWaard and Co-authors Study Spatiotemporal Changes in the Slavery-Inequality Relationship
Posted: 6/7/2024 (CSDE Research)
CSDE Affiliate Jack DeWaard (The Population Council) co-authored new research in Demography, titled “Spatiotemporal Changes in the Slavery–Inequality Relationship: The Diffusion of the Legacy of Slavery“. Despite the persistence of relationships between historical racist violence and contemporary Black–White inequality, research indicates, in broad strokes, that the slavery–inequality relationship in the United States has changed over time. Identifying the timing of such change across states can offer insights into the underlying processes that generate Black–White inequality. In this study, authors use integrated nested Laplace approximation models to simultaneously account for spatial and temporal features of panel data for Southern counties during the period spanning 1900 to 2018, in combination with data on the concentration of enslaved people from the 1860 census.