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[https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20221104 by AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION] | [https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20221104 by AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION] | ||
This paper studies the rise of sundown towns—places where Blacks and other minorities were excluded after dark—outside the South after 1890. We provide a new dataset on the timing of sundown town establishment using full count census records. Using a shift-share instrumental variables approach, we show that the presence of Southern Whites is causally related to the appearance of sundown towns, with lynchings and the establishment of KKK chapters as plausible mechanisms for racial exclusion. | This paper studies the rise of sundown towns—places where Blacks and other minorities were excluded after dark—outside the South after 1890. We provide a new dataset on the timing of sundown town establishment using full count census records. Using a shift-share instrumental variables approach, we show that the presence of Southern Whites is causally related to the appearance of sundown towns, with lynchings and the establishment of KKK chapters as plausible mechanisms for racial exclusion. | ||
=====A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-04330-9 by David Rigby 8/1/25 scientific reports] | |||
We present a new national data set of historical sundown towns in the United States linked to contemporary spatial information – i.e., the Historical Sundown Towns Linked to US Census Geographies database. Sundown towns are places that once enacted legal or conventional practices meant to restrict the movement or residency of Black people and other people of color within their borders. | |||
