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Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2010

Residential segregation by jurisdiction generates disparities in public services and education. The distinctive American pattern - in which blacks live in cities and whites in suburbs - was enhanced by a large black migration from the rural South. I show that whites responded to this black...

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Racial Sorting and the Emergence of Segregation in American Cities

Shertzer, Allison - 2016

Residential segregation by race grew sharply during the early twentieth century as black migrants from the South arrived in northern cities. The existing literature emphasizes collective action by whites to restrict where blacks could live as the driving force behind this rapid rise in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996880

The Great Migration in Black and White : New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants

Collins, William J. - 2015

We construct datasets of linked census records to study internal migrants' selection and destination choices during the first decades of the “Great Migration” (1910-1930). We study both whites and blacks and intra- and inter-regional migration. While there is some evidence of positive...

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Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910

Logan, Trevon - 2008

This is the first paper to document the effect of health on the migration propensities of African Americans in the American past. Using both IPUMS and the Colored Troops Sample of the Civil War Union Army Data, I estimate the effects of literacy and health on the migration propensities of...

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Competition in the Promised Land : Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2008

Four million blacks left the South from 1940 to 1970, doubling the northern black workforce. I exploit variation in migrant flows within skill groups over time to estimate the elasticity of substitution by race. I then use this estimate to calculate counterfactual rates of wage growth. I find...

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The Great Migration of Black Americans from the Us South : A Guide and Interpretation

Collins, William J. - 2022

The Great Migration from the US South is a prominent theme in economic history research not only because it was a prime example of large scale internal migration, but also because it had far-reaching ramifications for American economic, social, and political change. This article offers a concise...

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Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans : New Evidence from Linked Census Data

Collins, William J. - 2013

The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 census manuscripts to address three interconnected...

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White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2011

Between 1940 and 1980, the homeownership rate among metropolitan African-American households increased by 27 percentage points. Nearly three-quarters of this increase occurred in central cities. We show that rising black homeownership in central cities was facilitated by the movement of white...

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Family Migration Decisions

Mincer, Jacob - 2021

This paper joins a few very recent attempts to analyze migration in the awareness of the family context. In contrast to … most of them, my focus is exclusively on the family context. The paper defines family ties relevant to migration decisions … and explains their effects on the probability of migration, on consequent changes in employment and earnings of family …

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Does Money Protect Health Status? Evidence from South African Pensions

Case, Anne - 2021

The channels by which better health leads to higher income, and those by which higher income protects health status, are of interest to both researchers and policy makers. In general, quantifying the impact of income on health is difficult, given the simultaneous determination of health and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239169

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