@article{ced2f96ce44e4ba5ab69b75a766b34d1,
title = "New deal or no deal in the Cotton South: The effect of the AAA on the agricultural labor structure",
abstract = "The Agricultural Adjustment Act has often been held responsible for the rapid reduction of share tenants and sharecroppers (laborers paid shares of the crop) during the 1930s. However, this conclusion has come with limited empirical backing. We shed new light on the consequences of this New Deal policy by empirically testing the role that the AAA cotton reduction program had on the displacement of share tenants and sharecroppers in the Cotton South. The results suggest that the AAA played a significant role in the displacement of black and white sharecroppers and black managing tenants even though it was a violation of AAA contracts for landlords to displace these workers.",
keywords = "Agriculture, Discrimination, New deal, Share tenancy",
author = "Briggs Depew and Fishback, {Price V.} and Rhode, {Paul W.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Lee Alston, William Collins, Taylor Jaworski, Shawn Kantor, Carl Kitchens, Ron Oaxaca, Todd Sorensen, John Wallis, and Marianne Wanamaker for their invaluable advice and discussions. Comments at the University of Arizona 2010 paper conference, the University of Arizona history workshop, the Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings and the NBER Microeconomics of the New Deal Conferences provided helpful suggestions. Work on this paper and the datasets used have been funded by the National Science Foundation Grants SES-0921732 , SES-0617972 , SES-0214483 , and SES-0080324 . Any opinions expressed are our own and should not be construed as representing the attitudes of the National Science Foundation. ",
year = "2013",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1016/j.eeh.2013.06.004",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "50",
pages = "466--486",
journal = "Explorations in Economic History",
issn = "0014-4983",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "4",
}