Black Land Loss: 1920−1997

Dania V. Francis, Darrick Hamilton, Thomas W. Mitchell, Nathan A. Rosenberg and Bryce Wilson Stucki

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, vol. 112, 38-42

Abstract: Black agricultural land ownership was at a peak just after the turn of the twentieth century; however, there was a nearly 90 percent decline in ownership from 1910 to 1997. In this paper, we use US Census of Agriculture data to estimate that the present, compounded value of the Black land loss from 1920 to 1997 is roughly $326 billion.

JEL-codes: J15 N32 N52 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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