We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss
the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing …

We study the long run effects of immigration on American political ideology. Exploiting cross-
county variation in the presence of European immigrants between 1900 and 1930, we …

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic
assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across …

Abstract Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the
South to the North of the US, during the Second Great Migration. This same period …

This paper investigates the effect of media coverage on immigration attitudes. It combines
data on immigration coverage in French television with individual panel data from 2013 to …

This chapter summarizes insights from work on assimilation in historical political economy.
To organize the findings, the chapter provides a theoretical framework in which assimilation …

This paper investigates the pathways through which immigrant communities (social
networks) influence individual naturalization. Specifically, we examine the impact that a …

The increase in global immigration phenomena has impacted local labor markets. The
process of social and economic assimilation is crucial to ensure the well-being of both …

The cultural assimilation of immigrants into the host society is often equated with prospects
for economic success, with religion seen as a potential barrier. We investigate the role of …

The advent of the radio networks in the early twentieth century marked the inception of the
first national media platform in US history. This development coincided with the conclusion …