This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940–1970)
reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can …

This study uses a boundary design and propensity score methods to study the effects of the
1930s-era Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)“redlining” maps on the long-run …

We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
redlining maps on census tract-level measures of socioeconomic status and economic …

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss
the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing …

Exploiting complete census manuscript files, we derive a new segregation measure using
the racial similarity of next-door neighbors. The fineness of our measure reveals new facts …

This article reviews recent literature using insights from history to answer central questions
in urban economics. This area of research has seen rapid growth in the past decade, thanks …

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 …

We study how the spread of the Lost Cause narrative-a revisionist and racist retelling of the
US Civil War-shifted both opinions and behaviors toward reunifying the country and racially …

The combined impact of urbanization-induced warming and drying on large-scale heat
stress disparities remains unknown, with multicity studies using satellite-derived land …

This article reviews the history of race laws in the United States as distinct from the rule of
law, an idea found in the writing and speeches of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first …