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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454305
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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900 - 1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2015
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283642
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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484085
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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 62 (2020), pp. 86-102
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238840
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The seeds of ideology : historical immigration and political preferences in the United States
Giuliano, Paola; Tabellini, Marco - 2020
We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We … with the hypothesis that immigration left its footprint on American ideology via cultural transmission from immigrants to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226388
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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …, measures of culture that capture attitudes towards cooperation play the most important and robust role. Finally, our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528617
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The seeds of ideology : historical immigration and political preferences in the United States
Giuliano, Paola; Tabellini, Marco - 2020
We study the long run effects of immigration on U.S. political ideology. We establish a new result: historical European … immigration is associated with stronger preferences for redistribution and a more liberal ideology among Americans today. We …-group contact was more frequent, and are not due to transmission within ancestry groups. Immigration left its footprint on American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244207
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From immigrants to Americans : race and assimilation during the Great Migration
Fouka, Vasiliki; Mazumder, Soumyajit; Tabellini, Marco - 2019
How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to Northern urban centers, which were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013340
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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
The United States has admitted more than 3 million refugees since 1980 through official refugee resettlement programs. Scholars attribute the success of refugee groups to governmental programs on assimilation and integration. Before 1948, however, refugees arrived without formal selection...
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Please Call Me John : Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2016
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996551