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On the Spatial Determinants of Educational Access
Agostinelli, Francesco; Luflade, Margaux; Martellini, Paolo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We define educational access as the component of a neighborhood's value that is determined by the set of schools available to its residents. This paper studies the extent to which educational access is determined by sorting based on heterogeneous preferences over school attributes, or local...
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Do Higher Rents Discourage Fertility? Evidence from US Cities, 1940-2000
Simon, Curtis J.; Tamura, Robert - 2008
, the probability of migration between metropolitan areas is smaller for larger families, even those originating in more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219954
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The Long-Run Effects of Market Access Shocks from U.S. Railroad Network Expansions
Chan, Jeff - 2022
This paper examines whether increased market access driven by railroad network expansions had long-run effects on those living in affected areas during their early life. I make use of linked complete count U.S. Censuses to follow individuals who were children in 1900 and trace through short-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296641
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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth
Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from a below- to an above-median birth weight location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388779
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Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States
Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich - 2021
The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325151
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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; von Berlepsch, Viola - 2013
coincided with the greatest waves of European migration (1880, 1910) in order to uncover the settlement patterns of migrants of … determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development … difference for long-term economic development whatsoever. This holds for the first and second wave of migration. Hence being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397420
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Assimilation through marriage
Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2012
During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335974
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Labour market adjustments in Europe and the US: How different?
Beyer, Robert C. M.; Smets, Frank - 2015
convergence of the adjustment processes in Europe and the US, reflecting both a fall in interstate migration in the US and a rise … in the role of migration in Europe. Finally, we show that part of the difference between Europe and the US in previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605812
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Does racism affect a migrant's choice of destination?
Henry, Ruby - 2009
attitudes survey. Recognizing that African American migration may actually spawn hate crimes against them, I use a control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269551
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Are Hispanic immigrant families reviving the economies of America's small towns?
Coates, Dennis; Gindling, T. H. - 2010
In the 1990s, rural areas and small towns in the United States, which had been losing population, became the destinations for an increasing number of Hispanic immigrants and their families, slowing and in some cases reversing population declines. In this paper, we examine whether faster growth...
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