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- Influence
Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
- Ran Abramitzky, L. Boustan, K. Eriksson
- Economics, Medicine
- The American economic review
- 1 January 2010
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… Expand
A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
- Ran Abramitzky, L. Boustan, K. Eriksson
- Geography, Medicine
- Journal of Political Economy
- 1 April 2012
During the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913), the United States maintained an open border, absorbing 30 million European immigrants. Prior cross-sectional work finds that immigrants initially held… Expand
Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching
- Ran Abramitzky, Adeline Delavande, Luis I Vasconcelos
- 1 December 2010
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.… Expand
Immigration in American Economic History
- Ran Abramitzky, L. Boustan
- Political Science, Medicine
- Journal of economic literature
- 1 January 2016
The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants. Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society… Expand
Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching
- Ran Abramitzky, Adeline Delavande, Luis I Vasconcelos
- Economics
- 1 July 2011
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.… Expand
Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence from Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration
- Ran Abramitzky, L. Boustan, K. Eriksson
- Geography, Medicine
- Journal of development economics
- 1 August 2012
Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), a time when the US… Expand
The Limits of Equality: Insights from the Israeli Kibbutz
- Ran Abramitzky
- Economics
- 1 August 2008
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… Expand
Economics and the Modern Economic Historian
- Ran Abramitzky
- Economics
- 1 October 2015
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… Expand
Cultural Assimilation During the Age of Mass Migration
- Ran Abramitzky, L. Boustan, K. Eriksson
- History
- 1 July 2016
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… Expand
How responsive is investment in schooling to changes in redistributive policies and in returns
- Ran Abramitzky, Victor Lavy
- Economics
- 1 May 2011
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… Expand