Jonathan B. Pritchett


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Current Position: Associate Professor, Tulane University
Business Address:  Department of Economics 
Tulane University 
New Orleans, LA 70118
Office: Tilton Hall, 309C
Telephone: (504) 862-8359
e-mail: jprit@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
 
Education: University of Chicago, Ph.D. (economics) 1986
Professional Background:
Jan. 1992 - present: Associate Professor, Tulane University
Jan. 1991 - May 1991 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas
Aug. 1985 - Dec. 1991 Assistant Professor, Tulane University
Jan. 1985 - July 1985 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
 
Download a working paper:
Jonathan B. Pritchett, "Quantitative Estimates of the United States Interregional Slave Trade, 1820 - 1860," prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, 1998.

Select Publications:

Jonathan B. Pritchett, "The Interregional Slave Trade and the Selection of Slaves for the New Orleans Market," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 28 (Summer, 1997), pp. 57-85.

Insan Tunali and Jonathan B. Pritchett, "Cox Regression with Alternative Concepts of Waiting Time: The New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853," Journal of Applied Econometrics, 12 (Jan.-Feb., 1997), pp. 1-25.

Jonathan B. Pritchett and Insan Tunali, "Strangers' Disease: Determinants of Yellow Fever Mortality During the New Orleans Epidemic of 1853," Explorations in Economic History, 32 (October, 1995), pp. 517-539.

Jonathan B. Pritchett and Richard M. Chamberlain, "Selection in the Market for Slaves: New Orleans, 1830-1860," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108 (May, 1993), pp. 461-473.

Jonathan B. Pritchett and Herman Freudenberger, "A Peculiar Sample: The Selection of Slaves for the New Orleans Market," Journal of Economic History, 52 (March, 1992), pp. 109-127.

Herman Freudenberger and Jonathan B. Pritchett, "The Domestic United States Slave Trade: New Evidence," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 21 (Winter, 1991), pp. 447-477.

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