Abstract
Despite the growing literature on the impact of immigration, little is known about the role existing migrant settlements can play for knowledge transmission and the location of industry. We present a case that can illustrate this important mechanism and hypothesize that nineteenth-century Danish American communities helped spread knowledge on modern dairying to rural America. From around 1880 Denmark developed rapidly, and by 1890 it was a world-leading dairy producer. Using a difference-in-differences strategy and data taken from the US census and Danish emigration archives, we find that counties with more Danes in 1880 subsequently both specialized in dairying and used more modern practices.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Tidsskrift | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics |
| Vol/bind | 16 |
| Udgave nummer | 1 |
| Sider (fra-til) | 102-146 |
| ISSN | 1945-7707 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - jan. 2024 |
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Finansiering
* Boberg-Fazlić: Department of Business and Economics, TU Dortmund University and CEPR (email: nina. [email protected]). Sharp: Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark, CAGE, and CEPR (email: [email protected]). Ays¸egül S¸ahin was coeditor for this article. We are grateful to Philipp Ager, Vellore Arthi, Casper Worm Hansen, Peter Sandholt Jensen, and Thomas N. Maloney for very helpful suggestions. We thank seminar and conference participants at the University of Southern Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Helsinki, Munich, Duisburg-Essen, NYU Shanghai, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, the Social Science History Association conference 2018, the Third Congress for Economic and Social History at the University of Regensburg, the Tenth Annual Workshop on Growth, History and Development in Odense, CLADHE VI at the University of Santiago de Chile, the European Historical Economics Society 2019 at Paris School of Economics, the Forty-Fourth Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía-Spanish Economic Association (SAEe) at the University of Alicante, Spain, and the ASSA 2020 in San Diego for comments and suggestions. This version of the paper owes much to excellent feedback from Senior Editor Madeline Zavodny and two reviewers from the Center for Growth and Opportunity, Utah State University. Nina Boberg-Fazlić gratefully acknowledges funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (grant no. 6109-00287B).
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