caa a22 4500 38633028X CHVBK 20190412221954.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700008792 doi S0022050700008792 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700008792 Economic and Geographic Mobility on the Farming Frontier: Evidence from Appanoose County, Iowa, 1850-1870 [Elektronische Daten] This article investigates the characteristics of early settlers on the midwestern farming frontier, the correlates of their geographic mobility, and the determinants of their wealth. Using evidence drawn from the 1850, 1860, and 1870 federal censuses we find average rates of growth of wealth over time that were considerably above the national average, a steeper cross-sectional relationship between wealth and age than those found for contemporary national samples, and a substantial positive effect of early arrival on the frontier on wealth levels. Very high levels of economic opportunity may have been a characteristic of the farming frontier. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1989 Galenson David W. Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, 1L 60637, Visiting Professor of Economics and History, University of Texas at Austin, and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. Pope Clayne L. Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/3(1989-09), 635-655 0022-0507 49:3<635 1989 49 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700008792 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700008792 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Galenson David W. Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, 1L 60637, Visiting Professor of Economics and History, University of Texas at Austin, and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pope Clayne L. Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/3(1989-09), 635-655 0022-0507 49:3<635 1989 49 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 38633028X BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge