Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

We study the long run effects of immigration on American political ideology. Exploiting cross-
county variation in the presence of European immigrants between 1900 and 1930, we …

Digitized historical newspaper databases offer a valuable research tool. A rapidly expanding
set of studies use these databases to address a wide range of topics. We review this …

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic
assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across …

This essay reviews Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success by Ran
Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. This elegantly written book, whih is a must-read for anyone …

Digitized historical newspaper databases offer a valuable research tool. A rapidly expanding
set of studies use these databases to address a wide range of topics. We review this …

This paper shows how white migration out of the postbellum South diffused and entrenched
Confederate culture across the United States at a critical juncture of westward expansion …

This paper introduces the concept of “climate matching” as a driver of migration and
establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial …

How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrants' assimilation? This paper offers
the first systematic answer to this question by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US …

We estimate the causal effect of losing a father in the US Civil War on children's long-run
socioeconomic outcomes. Linking military records from the 2.2 million Union Army soldiers …