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A Peculiar Sample: A Reply to Steckel and Ziebarth

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  • Pritchett, Jonathan
  • Freudenberger, Herman

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Richard Steckel and Nicolas Ziebarth (2016) find that biases in height by age imposed by traders versus non-traders were negligible. Importantly, their method of identifying traders differs from that of Jonathan Pritchett and Herman Freudenberger (1992). Using a sample of inward coastwise manifests for the port of New Orleans, we show that Steckel and Ziebarth made errors classifying shippers, that they underestimate the relative number of slaves shipped by traders, and that their empirical estimates of selection bias are attenuated towards zero.

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  • Pritchett, Jonathan & Freudenberger, Herman, 2016. "A Peculiar Sample: A Reply to Steckel and Ziebarth," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 76(1), pages 139-162, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:76:y:2016:i:01:p:139-162_00
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    1. Schneider, Eric B., 2018. "Sample selection biases and the historical growth pattern of children," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 87075, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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