Abstract The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to …

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 …

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 …

In 2006, the United Nations reported on the “feminization” of migration, noting that the
number of female migrants had doubled over the last five decades. Likewise, global …

To test a model of contagion—where individuals hear some bad news and communicate it to
their acquaintances, who then pass it on, leading to a market panic—requires a knowledge …

Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability
of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913), a time …

We provide the first evidence of the magnitude and consequences of the Americanization of
migrants' names in the early twentieth century. We construct a longitudinal data set of …

This article analyzes rural-urban migration in Great Britain in the latter half of the nineteenth
century. Using a new dataset of 28,000 individuals matched between the 1851 and 1881 …

The field of political demography-the politics of population change-is dramatically
underrepresented in political science. At a time when demographic changes-aging in the …

Twenty-five million emigrants have left the British Isles since 1600, mainly travelling to
America or to parts of the British Empire around the world. Britannia's Children is the first …