Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE200100653

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE200100653

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Tools of racial control: an economic analysis of laws vs. violence. This project aims to develop and empirically test a theory of racial violence, which predicts that as racist laws are removed, racial violence increases. To test this hypothesis, I will construct a new, comprehensive dataset of lynchings and racist legislation in post-Civil War America, where newly freed blacks gained significant freedoms, but also experienced widespread violence. The empirical analysis proposes to identify a novel mechanism for racial violence in this context: a desire for racial control in areas that incurred shocks to the white sex ratio during the Civil War and distorted marriage markets thereafter. The findings aim to significantly contribute to our understanding of racial violence in both the US and Australia today.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2020

End Date: 12-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $399,350.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Economic History | Applied Economics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in Economics | Civil Justice |

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