Childhood exposure to birth registration laws and old-age mortality.
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DOI: 10.1002/hec.4643
Abstract: This paper studies the effects of the enactment of birth registration laws, as the official universal and uniform method of recording births, across US states in the first decades of the 20th century on old-age… read more here.
Keywords: birth registration; old age; registration laws;
America's first voter identification laws: The effects of personal registration and declining political party competition on presidential election turnout, 1880–1916
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DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102263
Abstract: Abstract Engaging a persistent puzzle on the decline in U.S turnout after 1896 from which the nation never recovered, this paper tests the impact of strict registration laws and declining electoral competition on turnout. This… read more here.
Keywords: 1880 1916; registration laws; competition; registration ... See more keywords