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The Criminal Tribes Act and Fiji (ICPSR 206902)
Released/updated on: 2024-06-27
Time period: 1903-01-01--1927-01-01
This is a replication package for studying the Criminal Tribes Act in India and return migration from Fiji. These files enable a user to replicate figures and tables.
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ECIN Replication Package for "A (Paid) Passage to India: Migration and revealed willingness to pay for upper-caste status" (ICPSR 183904)
Released/updated on: 2023-01-22
Time period: 1879-01-01--1916-01-01
How much are individuals willing to pay for privileged status in a society with systemic discrimination? Utilizing unique data on indentured Indians in Fiji paying to return to India, I calculate how much upper-caste individuals were willing to pay historically for their status. I show the lower bound of the value of the uppermost castes in north India equaled almost 2.5 years' gross wages. The ordering follows hypothesized inter-caste hierarchies and shows diminishing effects as caste status falls. Men entirely drive the effects. My results show some of the first evidence quantifying caste status values and speak to caste's persistence. Data from this project are included in this repository.
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EEH replication "Historical height measurement consistency" (ICPSR 193646)
Released/updated on: 2023-09-09
Economists have used historical heights as markers of health, living standards, and long-run development. Although possible selection bias has been debated, height measurement error is less studied. I analyze novel administrative data of male Indian indentured laborers with repeated measurements of adult height to answer animportant underlying question of precision. Laborers were measured by British colonial officials on departure in Indiaand again several years later when opting to return to India. I find no height differences for men who had attained full height in India. Younger men continued to grow even into their twenties. A caste subgroup analysis finds mostly similar results. This paper provides some of the first evidence showing height consistency in repeated measurementsof adult heights.
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Indian indentureship (ICPSR 108761)
Released/updated on: 2019-03-25
Geographic coverage: Fiji, South Africa, Suriname, Jamaica, India
Time period: 1873-01-01--1916-12-31
This is the replication package for the causes of indentureship. This project aggregates individual records for Indian indentured servants to Fiji, Jamaica, Natal, and Suriname for various years, ca. 1873-1916. This project analyzes how prices and wages push and pull indentured servants. These files enable a user to replicate the figures and tables from the project data.