Publications

"Was Postwar Suburbanization 'White Flight'? Evidence from the Black Migration." Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
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"Job Decentralization and Residential Location," joint with Robert A. Margo. Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, forthcoming.
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"Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970." Journal of Economic History. Sept 2009: 756-783.
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"Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment: New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch," joint with Robert A. Margo. Journal of Urban Economics. Jan 2009: 1-10.
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"Were Jews Political Refugees or Economic Migrants? Assessing the Persecution Theory of Jewish Emigration, 1881-1914". in The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honour of Jeffrey G. Williamson, eds. Tim Hatton, Kevin O'Rourke and Alan Taylor. MIT Press, 2007
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"Black Migration, White Flight: The Effect of Black Migration on Northern Cities and Labor Markets." Journal of Economic History. June 2007. (Dissertation summary).
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Working Papers

"Europe’s tired, poor, huddled masses: Self-selection and economic outcomes in the age of mass migration," joint with Ran Abramitzky and Katherine Eriksson.
June, 2009. (Preliminary and incomplete).

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"Escape from the City? The Role of Income and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization."
NBER Working Paper 13311, May 2008.
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"The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression," joint with Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor.
NBER Working Paper 13276, August 2008.
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"The Causal Impact of Education on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S.," with Philippe Aghion, Caroline Hoxby and Jerome Vandenbussche.
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