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Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2013
hundred year history. We show that the urban wage premium in the US was remarkably stable over the past two centuries, ranging …
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Law-abiding immigrants: the incarceration gap between immigrants and the US-born, 1850-2020
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Torres, Juan David; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317457
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Law-Abiding Immigrants : The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1850–2020
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Torres, Juan David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We combine full-count Census data (1850-1940) with Census/ACS samples (1950-2020) to provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1850-2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants had higher incarceration rates than US-born white men before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322827
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The Refugee Advantage : English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Catron, Peter; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
a large archive of recorded oral history interviews to understand linguistic attainment of migrants who arrived in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372487