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Self-published
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--1916-12-31
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.
Self-published
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.
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Law Enforcement Response to Human Trafficking and the Implications for Victims in the United States, 2005 (ICPSR 20423)
Released/updated on: 2011-06-13
Geographic coverage: North Carolina, New York, District of Columbia, Indiana, United States, Maine, Hawaii, Minnesota, California, Alabama, Florida, New Jersey, Washington, New Mexico, Illinois, Texas, Colorado, Connecticut, Missouri, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, Arizona, Nevada
Time period: 2005-08-01--2005-11-30, 2000-01-01--2005-12-31
The purpose of the study was to explore how local law enforcement were responding to the crime of human trafficking after the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) in 2000. The first phase of the study (Part 1, Law Enforcement Interview Quantitative Data) involved conducting telephone surveys with 121 federal, state, and local law enforcement officials in key cities across the country between August and November of 2005. Different versions of the telephone survey were created for the key categories of law enforcement targeted by this study (state/local investigators, police offices, victim witness coordinators, and federal agents). The telephone surveys were supplemented with interviews from law enforcement supervisors/managers, representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Human Trafficking/Smuggling Office, the United States Attorney's Office, the Trafficking in Persons Office, and the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Respondents were asked about their history of working human trafficking cases, knowledge of human trafficking, and familiarity with the TVPA. Other variables include the type of trafficking victims encountered, how human trafficking cases were identified, and the law enforcement agency's capability to address the issue of trafficking. The respondents were also asked about the challenges and barriers to investigating human trafficking cases and to providing services to the victims. In the second phase of the study (Part 2, Case File Review Qualitative Data) researchers collected comprehensive case information from sources such as case reports, sanitized court reports, legal newspapers, magazines, and newsletters, as well as law review articles. This case review examined nine prosecuted cases of human trafficking since the passage of the TVPA. The research team conducted an assessment of each case focusing on four core components: identifying the facts, defining the problem, identifying the rule to the facts (e.g., in light of the rule, how law enforcement approached the situation), and conclusion.
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Guns and Colonists, 1773-1775 [United States] (ICPSR 3573)
Released/updated on: 2008-08-27
Geographic coverage: North Carolina, United States, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, New York (state), Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, Pennsylvania
Time period: 1773-01-01--1775-12-31
This data collection is a supplement to the study AMERICAN COLONIAL WEALTH ESTIMATES, 1774 (ICPSR 7329). It contains data on the the number, types and values of firearms and blade-edge weapons, and the number of servants and slaves, owned by 919 decedents having resided in 21 colonial counties. Demographic information includes age of decedents and the date the probate inventory was taken.
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Descriptors and Measurements of the Height of Runaway Slaves and Indentured Servants in the United States, 1700-1850 (ICPSR 9721)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-12
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1700-01-01--1850-12-31
The purpose of this data collection was to provide data on
the height of slaves and indentured servants in the colonial and
antebellum periods of United States history. Data were taken from
newspaper advertisements describing the runaways. Variables include
the state in which the advertisement was published, the year of the
advertisement, the first and last names of the runaway slave or
indentured servant, and his or her race, sex, age, height, place of
birth, legal status (whether he or she was a convict or in jail at
time of advertisement), profession, and knowledge of the English
language.