This paper reviews the recent literature on rural-urban migration in developing countries,
focusing on three key questions: What motivates or forces people to migrate? What costs do …

We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of
outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of …

We classify the empirical literature on the wage impact of immigration into three groups,
where studies in the first two groups estimate different relative effects, and studies in the third …

Using millions of father-son pairs spanning more than 100 years of US history, we find that
children of immigrants from nearly every sending country have higher rates of upward …

By exploiting a commuting policy that led to a sharp and unexpected inflow of Czech
workers to areas along the German-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous …

This paper estimates the incidence of state corporate taxes on the welfare of workers,
landowners, and firm owners using variation in state corporate tax rates and apportionment …

We study how the recent national housing boom and bust affected college enrollment and
attainment during the 2000s. We exploit cross-city variation in local housing booms, and use …

We review the main distributional effects of the Great Recession and the ways in which
those effects have been organized into narratives. The Great Recession may affect poverty …

The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued
recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US …

This paper quantifies the impact on US employment from imports and exports during 1995–
2011, using the World Input–Output Database. We find that the growth in US exports led to …