This paper reviews the literature in historical record linkage in the United States and
examines the performance of widely used record-linking algorithms and common variations …

For the past 80 years, social scientists have been linking historical censuses across time to
study economic and geographic mobility. In recent decades, the quantity of historical census …

The recent digitization of complete count census data is an extraordinary opportunity for
social scientists to create large longitudinal datasets by linking individuals from one census …

Do forced assimilation policies always succeed in integrating immigrant groups? This article
examines how a specific assimilation policy—language restrictions in elementary school …

During the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913), the United States maintained an open
border, absorbing 30 million European immigrants. Prior cross-sectional work finds that …

During the age of mass migration (1850–1913), one of the largest migration episodes in
history, the United States maintained a nearly open border, allowing the study of migrant …

Areas differ in their propensity to experience natural disasters. Exposure to disaster risks can
be reduced either through migration (ie, self-protection) or through public infrastructure …

How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of
existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration …

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle
in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a …

The modern concept of the wealth of nations emerged by the early twentieth century. Capital
embodied in people—human capital—mattered. The United States led all nations in mass …