When the Levee Breaks: Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South
研究1927年密西西比大洪水如何促使黑人迁出，进而推动受淹县农业现代化和资本集约化，揭示白人地主对低薪黑人劳动力的依赖如何阻碍经济发展。
In the American South, postbellum economic development may have been restricted in part by white landowners' access to low-wage black labor. This paper examines the impact of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 on black out-migration and subsequent agricultural development. Flooded counties experienced an immediate and persistent out-migration of black population. Over time, landowners in flooded counties modernized agricultural production and increased its capital intensity relative to landowners in nearby similar non-flooded counties. Landowners resisted black out-migration, however, benefiting from the status quo system of labor-intensive agricultural production.