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“THE DUST WAS LONG IN SETTLING”: HUMAN CAPITAL AND THE LASTING

IMPACT OF THE AMERICAN DUST BOWL

Vellore Arthi

U N I V E R S I T Y O F O X F O R D

Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History

Number 129, April 2014

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