MELINDA C. MILLER
Job Market Candidate
University of Michigan
Curriculum Vitae Dissertation Abstract Teaching Philosophy
Job Market Paper
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Economics
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734-395-1344
Fax:
734-764-2769
E-mail: millermc@umich.edu
DISSERTATION
“Essays on Race
and the Persistence of Economic Inequality”
Chapter 1:
“’The Righteous and Reasonable Ambition to Become a
Landholder:’ What would have Happened if Former
Slaves had
Chapter 2:
“The Long Term Impact of Land Ownership on Former Slaves”
Chapter 3:
“The Linked Sample of the 1880 Cherokee Census to the 1900 United States
Census”
WORK IN PROGRESS
“The Intergenerational Transmission of Social and
Economic Status to Daughters in the Nineteenth Century: Did a Family’s Status
Differentially Influence Sons’ and Daughters’ Outcomes?”
REFERENCES
Benjamin Chabot (Co-Chair)
Warren Whatley (Co-Chair)
Department of Economics
Department
of Economics and
University of Michigan
Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
(734) 763-9238
University
of Michigan
remy@umich.edu
(734) 764-5513
Martha Bailey
Department of Economics
(734) 647-6874