This paper reviews recent research on geography and trade. One of the key empirical
findings over the last decade has been the role of geography in shaping the distributional …

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes?
Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social …

This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940–1970)
reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can …

This paper provides a simple conceptual framework that captures how different perceptions,
attitudes, and biases about immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution …

Urban economics and branches of mainstream economics–what we call the 'housing as
opportunity'school of thought–have been arguing that shortages of affordable housing in …

New evidence shows that intergenerational social mobility—the rate at which children born
into poverty climb the income ladder—varies considerably across the United States. Is this …

This article studies the long-run effects of slavery and restrictive Jim Crow institutions on
Black Americans' economic outcomes. We track individual-level census records of each …

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 …

A long-standing debate in political economy is whether voters are driven primarily by
economic self-interest or by less pecuniary motives like ethnocentrism. Using newly …

This article shows how the migration of millions of Southern whites in the twentieth century
shaped the cultural and political landscape across the United States. Racially and …