A replication package for a study on the rise and fall of pellagra in the American South. It is associated with research published in The Journal of Economic History by Karen Clay, Ethan Schmick, and Werner Troesken. The specific row count, column count, and data structure are not provided in the input.
Use Cases
- Analyze historical trends of pellagra incidence in the Southern United States.
- Investigate the relationship between pellagra and the boll weevil infestation as suggested by the dataset tags.
- Replicate the econometric analysis from the associated journal article using the provided data.
Strengths
- Dataset is directly linked to a peer-reviewed publication in The Journal of Economic History.
- Data is archived and maintained by the ICPSR Harvested Dataverse platform.
- Tags indicate coverage of two distinct historical phenomena: pellagra and the boll weevil.
Limitations
- The core data structure, including row count, column names, and file formats, is unknown.
- The dataset's temporal and specific geographic coverage within the Southern United States is not detailed.
- As an archival replication package, the data may be static and not updated beyond the original study's scope.
Provenance
- Source
- ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Replication package for a published academic study.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Southern United States