• DOI:10.1093/RESTUD/RDZ003
Corpus ID: 53597318

Immigrants and the Making of America

@article{Sequeira2020ImmigrantsAT,
  title={Immigrants and the Making of America},
  author={S. Sequeira and Nathan Nunn and N. Qian},
  journal={The Review of Economic Studies},
  year={2020},
  volume={87},
  pages={382-419}
}

S. Sequeira, Nathan Nunn, N. Qian

Published 2020

Economics

The Review of Economic Studies

We study the effects of European immigration to the U.S. during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1920) on economic prosperity. Exploiting cross-county variation in immigration that arises from the interaction of fluctuations in aggregate immigrant flows and of the gradual expansion of the railway network, we find that counties with more historical immigration have higher income, less poverty, less unemployment, higher rates of urbanization, and greater educational attainment today. The long-run… CONTINUE READING

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