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econ.GN2022
Gender gaps in frontier entrepreneurship? Evidence from 1901 Oklahoma land lottery winners
Jason Poulos
The paper investigates gender differences in entrepreneurship by exploiting a large-scale land lottery in Oklahoma at the turn of the 20 century. Lottery winners clai…
econ.GN2021★ 1 cited
Amnesty Policy and Elite Persistence in the Postbellum South: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Jason Poulos
This paper investigates the impact of Reconstruction-era amnesty policy on the officeholding and wealth of elites in the postbellum South. Amnesty policy restricted the political a…
econ.GN2019
State-Building through Public Land Disposal? An Application of Matrix Completion for Counterfactual Prediction
Jason Poulos
This paper examines how homestead policies, which opened vast frontier lands for settlement, influenced the development of American frontier states. It uses a treatment propensity-…