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Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages : Evidence from Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Hanson, Gordon H. - 1996

We examine illegal immigration in the United States from Mexico over the period 1976-1995. One challenge is that we do not observe the number of individuals that attempt to enter the United States illegally; we only observe the number of individuals apprehended attempting to cross the...

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Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth

Bustos, Paula - 2019

the legalization of genetically engineered soy in Brazil. Our results indicate that improvements in agricultural …

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The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country : Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Papadia, Andrea; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … informative of developing countries' experience because Brazil in this period was unique among major migrant destinations as a low … interaction of aggregate immigrant inflows and the expansion of Brazil's railway network, we find that a greater immigrant share …

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The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures

Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A.; Vollmer, Sebastian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use a dataset of the entire population of English Parliamentary enclosure acts between 1750 and 1830 to provide the first causal evidence of their impact. Exploiting a feature of the Parliamentary process that produced such legislation as a source of exogenous variation, we show that...

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Black Americans' Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation : New Evidence on the Significance of 40 Acres

Collins, William J.; Holtkamp, Nicholas C.; Wanamaker, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The US Civil War ended in 1865 without the distribution of land or compensation to those formerly enslaved--a decision often seen as a cornerstone of racial inequality. We build a dataset to observe Black households' landholdings in 1880, a key component of their wealth, alongside a sample of...

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The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl : Short and Long-run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe

Hornbeck, Richard - 2009

The 1930's American Dust Bowl was an environmental catastrophe that greatly eroded sections of the Plains. Analyzing new data collected to identify low-, medium-, and high-erosion counties, the Dust Bowl is estimated to have immediately, substantially, and persistently reduced agricultural land...

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Land Policy : Founding Choices and Outcomes, 1781-1802

Grubb, Farley - 2009

Victory in the War for Independence brought a vast amount of land within the grasp of the new American nation -- territory stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River between the southern shores of the Great Lakes and Spanish Florida. These lands were initially claimed by...

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The Assignment of Property Rights on the Western Frontier : Lessons for Contemporary Environmental and Resource Policy

Libecap, Gary D. - 2006

In addressing environmental and natural resource problems, there is a move away from primary reliance upon centralized regulation toward assignment of property rights to mitigate the losses of open-access. I examine the assignment of private property rights during the 19th and early 20th...

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Land Misallocation and Productivity

Restuccia, Diego - 2017

Using detailed household-level data from Malawi on physical quantities of outputs and inputs in agricultural production, we measure total factor productivity (TFP) for farms controlling for land quality, rain, and other transitory shocks. We find that operated land size and capital are...

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Up from Poverty? The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-run Distribution of Wealth

Bleakley, Hoyt - 2013

The state of Georgia allocated most of its land to the public through a system of lotteries. These episodes provide unusual opportunities to assess the long-term impact of large shocks to wealth, as winning was uncorrelated with individual characteristics and participation was nearly universal...

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