settlement on the productivity of textile manufactories hundred years after their immigration …This paper analyzes long-term effects of skilled-worker immigration on productivity for the Huguenots migration to …’ War. Exploiting this settlement pattern in an instrumental-variable approach, we still find causal effects of Huguenot …

, where conditions mirrored those of the High Plains. Both regions experienced a peak of settlement in the early twentieth … distance from a railroad and farm productivity; (2) detect changes in farm management and capital usage as the distance from a … railroad changed; (3) test whether temporal patterns shaped this relationship as settlement extended to drier areas, and as …