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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 3.
Published in final edited form as: Am Econ Rev. 2015 Feb;105(2):477–503. doi: 10.1257/aer.20120642

Figure 1. Proportion of African Americans Migrating out of the Deep South as of their 40s, Birth Cohorts 1891–1955.

Figure 1

Source: Authors’ calculations using 1940–2000 U.S. Census data for black men and women born in the Deep South. For birth cohorts 1891–1899, we measure those living in the North in 1940; for birth cohorts 1900–1909 we measure those living in the North in 1950; and so forth. Thus we record migration as of ages approximately 40–49. The dark-colored data points are for our primary cohorts of study, 1916–1932.