-1917), one of the deadliest conflicts in world history. We find that, on average, insurgency events led to a large increase in …

characteristics or immigration policy, but may reflect immigrants' resilience to economic shocks …

doctoral programs offered by universities in industrialized countries. This paper uses the opening of China in 1978 to estimate …. Our identification strategy relies on both the suddenness of the opening of China and on a key feature of scientific …

In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we … foreign-born workers in STEM jobs arrived in the U.S. at age 21 or older. Although we do not know the visa history of these …

period in US history. Immigrants chose less foreign names for children as they spent more time in the US, eventually closing …

wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the … immigration. An IV strategy, which deals with the endogeneity of immigration by exploiting a large influx of Central American … educated native men. Yet, ignoring the flows of native and earlier immigrants in response to this exogeneous immigration is …