Leah Platt Boustan

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• Princeton University / Department of Economics / Industrial Relations Section
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• Moving to Higher Ground: Migration Response to Natural Disasters in the Early Twentieth Century
  American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2012)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Matthew E. Kahn & Paul W. Rhode
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aecrev:v:102:y:2012:i:3:p:238-44)
• Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
  American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2012)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Katherine Eriksson
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aecrev:v:102:y:2012:i:5:p:1832-56)
• The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War
  American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2021)
  by Philipp Ager & Leah Boustan & Katherine Eriksson
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aecrev:v:111:y:2021:i:11:p:3767-94)
• Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the United States over Two Centuries
  American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2021)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Boustan & Elisa Jacome & Santiago Perez
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aecrev:v:111:y:2021:i:2:p:580-608)
• School Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association (2012)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aejapp:v:4:y:2012:i:1:p:85-108)
• Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today Than in the Past?
  American Economic Review: Insights, American Economic Association (2020)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Boustan & Katherine Eriksson
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aerins:v:2:y:2020:i:1:p:125-41)
• Discrimination and the Returns to Cultural Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration
  AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association (2020)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Boustan & Katherine Eriksson & Stephanie Hao
  (ReDIF-article, aea:apandp:v:110:y:2020:p:340-46)
• Immigration in American Economic History
  Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association (2017)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Boustan
  (ReDIF-article, aea:jeclit:v:55:y:2017:i:4:p:1311-45)
• Automated Linking of Historical Data
  Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association (2021)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Boustan & Katherine Eriksson & James Feigenbaum & Santiago Pérez
  (ReDIF-article, aea:jeclit:v:59:y:2021:i:3:p:865-918)
• Variation in Women's Success across PhD Programs in Economics
  Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (2019)
  by Leah Boustan & Andrew Langan
  (ReDIF-article, aea:jecper:v:33:y:2019:i:1:p:23-42)
• Job Decentralization And Residential Location
  Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series, Boston University - Department of Economics (2008)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Robert A. Margo
  (ReDIF-paper, bos:iedwpr:dp-177)
• White Suburbanization And African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980
  Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series, Boston University - Department of Economics (2011)
  by Robert A. Margo & Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-paper, bos:wpaper:wp2011-024)
• The intergenerational effects of a large wealth shock: White southerners after the Civil War
  CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2019)
  by Ager, Philipp & Boustan, Leah & Eriksson, Katherine
  (ReDIF-paper, cpr:ceprdp:13660)
• The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure
  CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2019)
  by Ager, Philipp & Abramitzky, Ran & Boustan, Leah & Cohen, Elior David & Hansen, Casper Worm
  (ReDIF-paper, cpr:ceprdp:14165)
• Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States. Edited by Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson. New York: Russell Sage Fou
  The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2005)
  by Boustan, Leah Platt
  (ReDIF-article, cup:jechis:v:65:y:2005:i:02:p:583-585_25)
• The New Suburban History. Edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 289. $24, paper
  The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2007)
  by Boustan, Leah Platt
  (ReDIF-article, cup:jechis:v:67:y:2007:i:01:p:243-245_26)
• Black Migration, White Flight: The Effect of Black Migration on Northern Cities and Labor Markets
  The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2007)
  by Boustan, Leah Platt
  (ReDIF-article, cup:jechis:v:67:y:2007:i:02:p:484-488_21)
• Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940–1970
  The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2009)
  by Boustan, Leah Platt
  (ReDIF-article, cup:jechis:v:69:y:2009:i:03:p:755-782_00)
• African American Urban History Since World War II. Edited by Kenneth L. Kuzmer and Joe W. Trotter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. v, 536
  The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2010)
  by Boustan, Leah Platt
  (ReDIF-article, cup:jechis:v:70:y:2010:i:02:p:526-528_00)
• Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the age of mass migration
  Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2013)
  by Abramitzky, Ran & Boustan, Leah Platt & Eriksson, Katherine
  (ReDIF-article, eee:deveco:v:102:y:2013:i:c:p:2-14)
• The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties: A century of data
  Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier (2020)
  by Boustan, Leah Platt & Kahn, Matthew E. & Rhode, Paul W. & Yanguas, Maria Lucia
  (ReDIF-article, eee:juecon:v:118:y:2020:i:c:s0094119020300280)
• Local public goods and the demand for high-income municipalities
  Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier (2013)
  by Boustan, Leah Platt
  (ReDIF-article, eee:juecon:v:76:y:2013:i:c:p:71-82)
• A silver lining to white flight? White suburbanization and African–American homeownership, 1940–1980
  Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier (2013)
  by Boustan, Leah P. & Margo, Robert A.
  (ReDIF-article, eee:juecon:v:78:y:2013:i:c:p:71-80)
• The Effect of Immigration on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure
  Research Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (2021)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Philipp Ager & Leah Boustan & Elior Cohen & Casper Hansen
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedkrw:93104)
• Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
  NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-book, nbr:nberbk:bous-2)
• Human Capital in History: The American Record
  NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Carola Frydman & Robert A. Margo
  (ReDIF-book, nbr:nberbk:bous12-1)
• Introduction to "Human Capital in History: The American Record"
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Carola Frydman & Robert A. Margo
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:12887)
• The Origin and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women's Labor Force Participation
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & William J. Collins
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:12902)
• Introduction to "Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets"
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:13671)
• Black Migration from the South in Historical Context
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:13672)
• Who Left the South and How Did They Fare?
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:13673)
• Competition in Northern Labor Markets
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:13674)
• Black Migration, White Flight
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:13675)
• Motivations for White Flight: The Role of Fiscal/Political Interactions
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:13676)
• Epilogue: Black Migration, Northern Cities, and Labor Markets after 1970
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:13677)
• Front matter, table of contents, acknowledgements
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Carola Frydman & Robert A. Margo
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:13793)
• Indexes
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Carola Frydman & Robert A. Margo
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:13794)
• Factory Automation and Declining Trust in Institutions in the 1970s and 1980s
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Jiwon Choi & David Clingingsmith
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:14843)
• Introduction to "Historical Labor Markets and Inequality"
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023)
  by Martha J. Bailey & Leah Platt Boustan & William J. Collins
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:14847)
• The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Price V. Fishback & Shawn E. Kantor
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:13276)
• Escape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:13311)
• Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment: New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Robert A. Margo
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:13462)
• Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:13543)
• Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:13813)
• Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2010)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Katherine Eriksson
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:15684)
• Income Inequality and Local Government in the United States, 1970-2000
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2010)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Fernando Ferreira & Hernan Winkler & Eric Zolt
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:16299)
• School Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2010)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:16434)
• Demography and Population Loss from Central Cities, 1950-2000
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2010)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Allison Shertzer
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:16435)
• White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2011)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Robert A. Margo
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:16702)
• A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2012)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Katherine Eriksson
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:18011)
• Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence From Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2012)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Katherine Eriksson
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:18298)
• The Origins and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women's Labor Force Participation
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & William J. Collins
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:19040)
• Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Devin Michelle Bunten & Owen Hearey
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:19041)
• Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:19045)
• Racial Differences in Health in Long-Run Perspective: A Brief Introduction
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014)
  by Leah Boustan & Robert A. Margo
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:20765)
• Immigration in American Economic History
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:21882)
• Cultural Assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Katherine Eriksson
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:22381)
• To the New World and Back Again: Return Migrants in the Age of Mass Migration
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Katherine Eriksson
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:22659)
• The Effect of Natural Disasters on Economic Activity in US Counties: A Century of Data
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2017)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Matthew E. Kahn & Paul W. Rhode & Maria Lucia Yanguas
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:23410)
• Variation in Women’s Success Across PhD Programs in Economics
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Andrew Langan
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:25444)
• The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners After the Civil War
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019)
  by Philipp Ager & Leah Platt Boustan & Katherine Eriksson
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:25700)
• Automated Linking of Historical Data
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Katherine Eriksson & James J. Feigenbaum & Santiago Pérez
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:25825)
• Does Condominium Development Lead to Gentrification?
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Robert A. Margo & Matthew M. Miller & James M. Reeves & Justin P. Steil
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:26170)
• Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Elisa Jácome & Santiago Pérez
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:26408)
• The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Philipp Ager & Leah Platt Boustan & Elior Cohen & Casper W. Hansen
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:26536)
• Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Dylan Connor
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:27372)
• Automation After the Assembly Line: Computerized Machine Tools, Employment and Productivity in the United States
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Jiwon Choi & David Clingingsmith
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:30400)
• White Flight from Asian Immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Christine Cai & Tammy Tseng
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:31434)
• Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1850–2020
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Elisa Jácome & Santiago Pérez & Juan David Torres
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:31440)
• The Refugee Advantage: English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Peter Catron & Dylan Connor & Rob Voigt
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:31730)
• Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration
  The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press (2010)
  by Leah Platt Boustan
  (ReDIF-article, oup:qjecon:v:125:y:2010:i:1:p:417-443.)
• To the New World and Back Again: Return Migrants in the Age of Mass Migration
  ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School (2019)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Boustan & Katherine Eriksson
  (ReDIF-article, sae:ilrrev:v:72:y:2019:i:2:p:300-322)
• Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
  Discussion Papers, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research ()
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Boustan & Katherine Eriksson
  (ReDIF-paper, sip:dpaper:09-029)
• Population Trends as a Counterweight to Central City Decline, 1950–2000
  Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA) (2013)
  by Leah Boustan & Allison Shertzer
  (ReDIF-article, spr:demogr:v:50:y:2013:i:1:p:125-147)
• The Effect of Rising Income Inequality on Taxation and Public Expenditures: Evidence from U.S. Municipalities and School Districts, 1970–2000
  The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2013)
  by Leah Boustan & Fernando Ferreira & Hernan Winkler & Eric M. Zolt
  (ReDIF-article, tpr:restat:v:95:y:2013:i:4:p:1291-1302)
• Human Capital in History
  National Bureau of Economic Research Books, University of Chicago Press (2014)
  by
  (ReDIF-book, ucp:bknber:9780226163895)
• The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets:American Cities during the Great Depression
  Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press (2010)
  by Leah Platt Boustan & Price V. Fishback & Shawn Kantor
  (ReDIF-article, ucp:jlabec:v:28:y:2010:i:4:p:719-746)
• A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
  Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press (2014)
  by Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Katherine Eriksson
  (ReDIF-article, ucp:jpolec:doi:10.1086/675805)