Abstract 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 …

This paper demonstrates that, since 1945, migration policies have overall become less
restrictive. Challenging common assumptions, this long-term trend is robust across most of …

This paper elaborates an aspirations–capabilities framework to advance our understanding
of human mobility as an intrinsic part of broader processes of social change. In order to …

Migration is a widely used adaptation strategy to climate change impacts. Yet resource
constraints caused by such impacts may limit the ability to migrate, thereby leading to …

In this article, I jointly investigate the political and the economic effects of immigration, and
study the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European …

This paper synthesizes insights from new global data on the effectiveness of migration
policies. It investigates the complex links between migration policies and migration trends to …

Africa is often seen as a continent of mass migration and displacement caused by poverty,
violent conflict and environmental stress. Yet such perceptions are based on stereotypes …

We study the effects of European immigration to the US during the Age of Mass Migration
(1850–1920) on economic prosperity. Exploiting cross-county variation in immigration that …

Adopting a new approach to historical data, Peter H Lindert and Jeffrey G Williamson have
charted the history of American incomes‐and income inequality‐since colonial times. Here …

The era of official color-blindness in Latin America has come to an end. For the first time in
decades, nearly every state in Latin America now asks their citizens to identify their race or …