The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...

In the public finance literature it is well understood that a community's spending can be affected by neighboring communities' spending. It is relatively straightforward to see why these spillovers exist. For example, if a school district increases its spending on public education, this could...