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 …

Using millions of father-son pairs spanning more than 100 years of US history, we find that
children of immigrants from nearly every sending country have higher rates of upward …

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 …

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 …

Linking individuals across historical datasets relies on information such as name and age
that is both non-unique and prone to enumeration and transcription errors. These errors …

We study migrant selection using the rich data generated by the migration of Italians to the
US between 1907 and 1925. Comparing migrants' heights to the height distributions of their …

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and
sparked a surge in migration to the US. We build a new dataset of Irish immigrants and their …

Abstract The experiences of Latin American countries are not fully incorporated into current
debates concerning the age of mass migration, even though 13 million Europeans migrated …

We study the history and geography of wealth accumulation in the US, using newly collected
historical property tax records since the early 1800s. The US General Property Tax was a …

Abstract Irish Catholics in America have a vibrant memory of humiliating job discrimination,
which featured omnipresent signs proclaiming “Help Wanted—No Irish Need Apply!” No one …