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List of works by Leah Platt Boustan

A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

scientific article published in April 2012

Automated Linking of Historical Data

scientific article published in May 2019

Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970

scientific article published in February 2008

Cultural Assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration

scientific article published in July 2016

Demography and Population Loss from Central Cities, 1950-2000

scientific article published in October 2010

Does Condominium Development Lead to Gentrification?

scientific article published in August 2019

Escape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization

scientific article published in August 2007

Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

scientific article published in January 2010

Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence From Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration

scientific article published in August 2012

Immigration in American Economic History

scientific article published in January 2016

Income Inequality and Local Government in the United States, 1970-2000

Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries

scientific article published in October 2019

Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office

scientific article published in June 2020

Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment: New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch

scientific article published in October 2007

Racial Differences in Health in Long-Run Perspective: A Brief Introduction

scientific article published in December 2014

Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities

scientific article published in May 2013

School Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries

scientific article published in October 2010

The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression

scientific article published in July 2007

The Effect of Natural Disasters on Economic Activity in US Counties: A Century of Data

scientific article published in May 2017

The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure

scientific article published in December 2019

The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners After the Civil War

scientific article published in April 2019

The Origins and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women's Labor Force Participation

scientific article published in May 2013

To the New World and Back Again: Return Migrants in the Age of Mass Migration

scientific article published in September 2016

Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000

scientific article published in May 2013

Variation in Women’s Success Across PhD Programs in Economics

scientific article published in January 2019

Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration

scientific article published in October 2007

White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980

scientific article published in January 2011