Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247085 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Paper No. 155
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
Despite the growing literature on the impact of immigration, little is known about the role existing migrant settlements can play for knowledge transmission. We present a case which can illustrate this important mechanism and hypothesize that nineteenth century Danish-American communities helped spread knowledge on modern dairying to rural America. From around 1880, Denmark developed rapidly and by 1890 it was a world-leading dairy producer. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, and data taken from the US census and Danish emigration archives, we find that counties with more Danes in 1880 subsequently both specialized in dairying and used more modern practices.
Subjects: 
Dairying
immigration
knowledge spillovers
technology
JEL: 
F22
J61
N11
N31
N51
O33
Q16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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