Leah Boustan

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Leah Boustan is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Los Angeles, Princeton University, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Leah Platt Boustan is an economist who is currently a professor of economics at Princeton University. Her research interests include economic history, labour economics, and urban economics. Biography Leah Platt Boustan earned a BA in Economics from Princeton University in 2000, and her PhD in 2006 from Harvard University. Her dissertation, "The Effect of Black Migration on Northern Cities and Labor Markets, 1940-1970,” won the Economic History Association's Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation in US economic history that year.

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Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration (2010) (438)
A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration (2012) (372)
Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration (2007) (346)
The Causal Impact of Education on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. (2009) (245)
Immigration in American Economic History (2016) (209)
Moving to Higher Ground: Migration Response to Natural Disasters in the Early Twentieth Century (2012) (201)
The Effect of Natural Disasters on Economic Activity in Us Counties: A Century of Data (2017) (191)
The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities during the Great Depression (2007) (165)
Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence from Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration (2012) (150)
Exploiting States’ Mistakes to Identify the Causal Impact of Higher Education on Growth (2005) (148)
The Effect of Rising Income Inequality on Taxation and Public Expenditures: Evidence from U.S. Municipalities and School Districts, 1970–2000 (2013) (119)
Automated Linking of Historical Data (2019) (108)
Cultural Assimilation During the Age of Mass Migration (2016) (99)
Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities (2013) (81)
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940–1970 (2008) (74)
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (2020) (66)
The Effect of Rising Income Inequality on Taxation and Public Expenditures: Evidence from U.S. Municipalities and School Districts, 1970-2000 (2013) (62)
Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today than in the Past? (2020) (57)
Human Capital in History: The American Record (2014) (57)
Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment: New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch (2007) (55)
School Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries (2010) (50)
To the New World and Back Again: Return Migrants in the Age of Mass Migration (2016) (45)
A silver lining to white flight? White suburbanization and African–American homeownership, 1940–1980 (2013) (41)
Was Postwar Suburbanization (2007) (34)
Variation in Women's Success Across Phd Programs in Economics (2019) (33)
Local public goods and the demand for high-income municipalities (2013) (33)
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War (2019) (33)
Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the Us Over Two Centuries (2019) (30)
Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000 (2013) (29)
Policing the Police: The Impact of "Pattern-or-Practice" Investigations on Crime (2020) (28)
Population Trends as a Counterweight to Central City Decline, 1950–2000 (2013) (27)
The Origins and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women&Apos;S Labor Force Participation (2013) (26)
The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure (2019) (26)
Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the United States over Two Centuries (2021) (24)
Income Inequality and Local Government in the United States, 1970-2000 (2010) (22)
Black Migration, White Flight: The Effect of Black Migration on Northern Cities and Labor Markets (2007) (18)
Competition in the Promised Land (2018) (16)
Job Decentralization and Residential Location (2009) (15)
Does Condominium Development Lead to Gentrification? (2019) (14)
Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office (2020) (14)
Escape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization (2007) (12)
Racial Differences in Health in Long-Run Perspective: A Brief Introduction (2014) (7)
Computational analysis of 140 years of US political speeches reveals more positive but increasingly polarized framing of immigration (2022) (7)
Racial Differences in Health in the United States (2016) (6)
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Northern Labor Markets, 1940-1970 (2006) (6)
Demography and Population Loss from Central Cities, 1950-2000 (2010) (6)
White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980 (2011) (6)
The Effect of Immigration Restrictions on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure (2023) (5)
Discrimination and the Returns to Cultural Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration (2020) (5)
COPING WITH ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL SHOCKS: INSTITUTIONS AND OUTCOMES: Moving to Higher Ground: Migration Response to Natural Disasters in the Early Twentieth Century. (2012) (4)
Inequality and Local Government: Evidence from U.S. Cities and School Districts, 1970-2000. (2010) (4)
SIEPR policy brief (2010) (3)
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 Foundation, 2004. Pp. ix, 390. $45.00. (2005) (2)
1 Automated Linking of Historical Data * (2019) (2)
Refugees without Assistance: English-Language Attainment and Economic Outcomes in the Early Twentieth Century (2021) (2)
Immigrant selection and assimilation during the age of mass migration (2013) (1)
Replication data for: Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration (2019) (1)
Human Capital in History (2014) (1)
Black Out-Migration and Southern Political Realignment (2018) (1)
Urbanization in American Economic History, 1800–2000 (2018) (1)
Black Migration, White Flight (2018) (1)
Introduction to "Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets" (2016) (0)
The Effect of Immigration on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure (2021) (0)
Online Appendix Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries By RAN ABRAMITZKY, LEAH BOUSTAN, ELISA JÁCOME, AND SANTIAGO PÉREZ Figure A1: Robustness to Weighting & Linking Algorithm and to Sample Construction (2020) (0)
Chapter 5: Motivations for White Flight: The Role of Fiscal/Political Interactions (2017) (0)
Epilogue: Black Migration, Northern Cities, and Labor Markets after 1970 (2016) (0)
Front Matter ("Table of Contents", "Acknowledgements") (2014) (0)
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration in Northern Cities and Labor Markets by <string-name><given-names>Leah Platt</given-names> <surname>Boustan</surname></string-name> (review) (2019) (0)
Introduction to "Human Capital in History: The American Record" (2014) (0)
Black Migration from the South in Historical Context (2018) (0)
The New Suburban History. Edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 289. $24, paper. (2007) (0)
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. (2010) (0)
Omicron Delta Epsilon Chapter Roll (2016) (0)
Who Left the South and How Did They Fare (2018) (0)
Competition in Northern Labor Markets (2018) (0)
Motivations for White Flight: The Role of Fiscal/Political Interactions (2018) (0)
Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets 721 consistent with the presence of sticky wages and high unemployment during the Depression (2010) (0)
Chapter 4: Black Migration, White Flight (2017) (0)
Automation After the Assembly Line: Computerized Machine Tools, Employment and Productivity in the United States (2022) (0)
JUE insight: Condominium development does not lead to gentrification (2022) (0)
Migrant self-selection in the presence of random shocks. Evidence from the Panic of 1907 (2020) (0)
Not Just Black and While: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States (2005) (0)
Chapter 2: Who Left the South and How Did They Fare? (2017) (0)
JUE insight: White flight from Asian immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools (2023) (0)
Getting Inside the Black Box of 'White Flight': The Role of Suburban Political Autonomy and Public Goods (2005) (0)
Chapter 1: Migration in African-American Economic History (2012) (0)
Chapter 3: Competition in Northern Labor Markets (2017) (0)
Chapter 1: Black Migration from the South in Historical Context (2017) (0)
The Development of the American Economy Program (2017) (0)

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