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Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

During the age of mass migration (1850-1913), one of the largest migration episodes in history, the United States maintained a nearly open border, allowing the study of migrant decisions unhindered…
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Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching

We assemble a novel dataset to study the impact of male scarcity on marital assortative matching and other marriage market outcomes using the large shock that WWI caused to the number of French men.…
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A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

It is shown that assimilation patterns vary substantially across sending countries and persist in the second generation, and cross-sectional patterns are driven by biases from declining arrival cohort skill level and departures of negatively selected return migrants.
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Immigration in American Economic History

The literatures on historical and contemporary migrant flows are reviewed, yielding new insights on migrant selection, assimilation of immigrants into US economy and society, and the effect of immigration on the labor market.
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Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence from Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration

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The Limits of Equality: Insights from the Israeli Kibbutz

What limits the capacity of society to redistribute and provide insurance? What determines the structure of compensation in organizations striving for income equality? This paper addresses these…
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Economics and the Modern Economic Historian

I reflect on the role of modern economic history in economics. I document a substantial increase in the percentage of papers devoted to economic history in the top-5 economic journals over the last…
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Automated Linking of Historical Data

This work evaluates different automated methods for record linkage, performing a series of comparisons across methods and against hand linking, and concludes that automated methods perform well.
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Cultural Assimilation During the Age of Mass Migration

Using two million census records, we document cultural assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration, a formative period in US history. Immigrants chose less foreign names for children as they spent…
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How responsive is investment in schooling to changes in redistributive policies and in returns

This paper uses an unusual pay reform to test the responsiveness of investment in schooling to changes in redistribution schemes that increase the rate of return to education. We exploit an episode…
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