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Which Mexicans Are white? : enumerator-assigned race in the 1930 Census and the socioeconomic integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race - predominantly "white" - to U.S.-born...

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Homeward bound : how migrants seek out familiar climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2024

This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...

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The Great Migration and educational opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2023

This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...

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Impact of paternal temporary absence on children left behind

Booth, Alison L.; Tamura, Yuji - 2009

Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence … investment ; child labor ; Vietnam ; VLSS …

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Inequality in Vietnamese urban-rural living standards, 1993 - 2006

Le, Huong Thu; Booth, Alison L. - 2010

Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban …-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before …-rural inequality ; Vietnam ; unconditional quantile regression ; Oaxaca decomposition …

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Drawn into violence : evidence on "what makes a criminal" from the Vietnam draft lotteries

Lindo, Jason M.; Stoecker, Charles - 2010

Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military … used to draft servicemen. -- crime ; violence ; military ; two-sample IV ; Vietnam War …

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Gender patterns in Vietnam's child mortality

Pham, Thong Le; Kooreman, Peter; Koning, Ruud Hans; … - 2011

We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region …

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Does the military train men to be violent criminals? : new evidence from Australia's conscription lotteries

Siminski, Peter; Ville, Simon P.; Paull, Alexander - 2013

prepares people for violent warfare, are hypothesized to link service to violent crime. Using Australia's Vietnam …

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Who suffers the penalty? : a panel data analysis of earnings gaps in Vietnam

Nguyen Huu Chi; Nordman, Christophe J.; Roubaud, François - 2013

structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the VHLSS dataset in Vietnam, in particular its three wave …, we draw conclusions highlighting the Vietnam's labour market specificity. -- informal employment ; earnings gap … ; transition matrix ; panel data ; Vietnam …

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Monetary transfers from children and the labour supply of elderly parents : evidence from Vietnam

Trong Ha Nguyen; Liu, Amy Y. C.; Booth, Alison L. - 2012

In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This paper examines whether monetary transfers from children help to reduce elderly parents' need to work. Taking the possible...

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