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 …

I explore how a gender's scarcity may impact educational investments using exogenous
variation in the marriage market of second generation Americans in early twentieth century. I …

SuSan EckStEin and Giovanni PEri standing of the labor market experiences of new
immigrants and of the opportunities and constraints they face in the economic niches in …

This paper examines the effect of ethnic enclaves on economic outcomes of Norwegian
immigrants in 1910 and 1920, the later part of the Age of Mass Migration. Using various …

In this article, we show how to use administrative data from the Matrícula Consular de Alta
Seguridad (MCAS) identification card program to measure the joint distribution of sending …

Little is known about international return migration because governments rarely track out-
migrants. However, one exception occurred early in the 20th century when the United States …

Several factors influenced the composition of migrants in the early 20th century, including
World War I, the Literacy Act of 1917, and the implementation of strict immigration quotas …

We study the impact of immigration-induced changes in labor supply within agriculture in the
US during early 20th century, a sector where shifting output mix may be easier than in …

This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of immigration by estimating an equilibrium model
of local labor markets in the United States. The model includes firms in multiple cities and …

This paper investigates the causal pathways through which ethnic social networks influence
individual naturalization. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information …