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Immigrants and Savers: A Rich New Database on the Irish in 1850s New York

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Author(s)
Wegge, Simone 
Anbinder, Tyler 
Ó Gráda, Cormac 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8688
Date Issued
April 2017
Date Available
27T09:17:16Z July 2017
Abstract
We describe a new dataset created from the first 18,000 savings accounts opened (from 1850 to 1858) at the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank in New York City. The bank was founded by Irish Americans and most of its depositors in its first decade of operations were recent Irish immigrants. The data offer a unique window on both savings behavior by the poor and not-so-poor in antebellum New York and on how emigrants who came primarily from rural parts of Ireland adapted to urban life. They also contain much that is new on the regional origins of mid-nineteenth century Irish immigrants and on their settlement patterns in New York.
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Start Page
1
End Page
41
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
WP2017/07
Copyright (Published Version)
2017 the authors
Keywords
  • Savings behavior

  • Irish immigration

  • Social mobility

  • New York

Classification
N
D14
F22
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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