This article studies the long-run effects of slavery and restrictive Jim Crow institutions on
Black Americans' economic outcomes. We track individual-level census records of each …

Efforts to document long-term trends in socioeconomic mobility in the United States have
been hindered by the lack of large, representative datasets that include information linking …

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 …

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 …

We present an econometric structure for the analysis of intergenerational mobility that
integrates non-linearities, the role of maternal-side effects and the impact of grandparents …

JIM CROW AND BLACK ECONOMIC PROGRESS AFTER SLAVERY* Page 1 JIM CROW AND
BLACK ECONOMIC PROGRESS AFTER SLAVERY * LUKAS ALTHOFF AND HUGO …

We estimate long-run trends in intergenerational relative mobility for representative samples
of the US-born population. Harmonizing all surveys that include father's occupation and own …

This paper studies the effects of business school education on manager career outcomes,
using evidence from the Engineering, Science, and Management War Training (ESMWT) …

We study differences in economic outcomes by perceived skin tone among African
Americans using full-count US decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th …

This paper uses Census microdata linked with tax records to quantify the contribution of
occupations to intergenerational income mobility. We document substantial segregation into …