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 …

We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy
during the long nineteenth century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. States …

In this article, I jointly investigate the political and the economic effects of immigration, and
study the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European …

Adopting a new approach to historical data, Peter H Lindert and Jeffrey G Williamson have
charted the history of American incomes‐and income inequality‐since colonial times. Here …

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 …

Since the 1970s, computerized machine tools have been replacing semi-skilled
manufacturing workers, contributing to factory automation. We build a novel measure of …

We show a causal impact of immigration on innovation and dynamism in US counties. To
identify the causal impact of immigration, we use 130 years of detailed data on migrations …

We use a large expansion of government-owned banks in cities with extremely low bank
branch coverage and data on the universe of formal-sector employees in Brazil over 2000 …

More than ten percent of the population of Colombia has been forced to migrate due to civil
war. This study employs an enclave IV strategy, which exploits social distance between …

Environmental pollution affects people's quality of life and health. Improving environmental
awareness and developing green technologies are the key measures to solve the pollution …