MELINDA C. MILLER

Job Market Candidate

University of Michigan

 

Curriculum Vitae          Dissertation Abstract          Teaching Philosophy          Job Market Paper

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Economics

University of Michigan

611 Tappan Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220

 

Telephone:  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 Received Land after the Civil War?”

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

                                                                                                       wwhatley@umich.edu

Martha Bailey

Department of Economics

University of Michigan

(734) 647-6874

baileymj@umich.edu