A Peculiar Sample: a reply to Steckel and Ziebarth

Jonathan Pritchett () and Herman Freudenberger ()
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Herman Freudenberger: Department of Economics, Tulane University

No 1504, Working Papers from Tulane University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Steckel and Ziebarth (2014) 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 Pritchett and 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.

Date: 2015-07
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