2016 Working Papers Archive

The Citizenship Advantage: Immigrant Socioeconomic Attainment across Generations in the Age of Mass Migration
PWP-CCPR-2016-044
Peter Catron


The Cream of the Crop? Inequality and Migrant Selectivity in Ireland during the Age of Mass Migration
PWP-CCPR-2016-043
Dylan Connor


The Effects of School Desegregation on Mixed-Race Births
PWP-CCPR-2016-042
Nora Gordon, Sarah Reber


Poverty, Religious Differences and Child Mortality in the Early 20th Century: The Case of Dublin
PWP-CCPR-2016-041
Dylan Connor


Socio-Demographic and Spatial Patterns of Autism and Vaccine Exemptions
PWP-CCPR-2016-040
Ashley Gromis, Ka-Yuet Liu


“Go West, Young Woman?”: The Geography of the Gender Wage Gap through the Great Recession
PWP-CCPR-2016-039
Jamie Goodwin-White


Persistent Social Networks: Veterans Who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life
PWP-CCPR-2016-038
Dora Costa, Matthew Kahn, Christopher Roudiez, Sven Wilson


Regime Stability and the Persistence of Traditional Practices
PWP-CCPR-2016-037
Michael Poyker


The Generational Structure of US Families and Their Intergenerational Transfers
PWP-CCPR-2016-036
Emily Wiemers, Judith Seltzer, Robert Schoeni, V. Joseph Hotz, Suzanne Bianchi


An Evaluation of Three Ways of Measuring Marriage Rates
PWP-CCPR-2016-035
Mary Ann Bronson, Maurizio Mazzocco


Risky Sexual Behavior of Foreign and Native-born Women in Emerging Adulthood: The Long Reach of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Adolescence
PWP-CCPR-2016-034
Goleen Samari, Judith Seltzer


Signaling vs Human Capital: Evidence from a Curriculum Reform at Colombia’s Top University
PWP-CCPR-2016-033
Carolina Arteaga


Made in America? Immigrant Occupational Mobility in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
PWP-CCPR-2016-032
Peter Catron


Single Mother’s Unemployment Experiences After a Job Placement: Children’s Educational and Psychological Outcomes
PWP-CCPR-2016-031
Juli Simon Thomas


Sequential Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Long-Term Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage on Children’s Reading and Mathematical Skills
PWP-CCPR-2016-030
Andrew L. Hicks, Mark S. Handcock, Narayan Sastry, Anne Pebley


To Compare is to Despair? A Population-Wide Study of Neighborhood Composition and Suicide in Stockholm
PWP-CCPR-2016-029
Ka-Yuet Liu


Parent-child Relationships at the Transition to Adulthood: A Comparison of Black, Hispanic, and White Immigrant and Native- Born Youth
PWP-CCPR-2016-028
Jessica Halliday Hardie, Judith Seltzer


Immigration in American Economic History
PWP-CCPR-2016-027
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan


The Origins and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women’s Labor Force Participation
PWP-CCPR-2016-026
Leah Boustan, William J. Collins


Urbanization in The United States, 1800-2000
PWP-CCPR-2016-025
Leah Boustan, Devin Buten, Owen Hearey


Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities
PWP-CCPR-2016-024
Leah Boustan


The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State
PWP-CCPR-2016-023
Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn


Culture and Institutions
PWP-CCPR-2016-021
Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano
PWP-CCPR-2016-020
Jessica Halliday Hardie, Judith Seltzer


Globalization and Its (Dis-)Content: Trade Shocks and Voting Behavior
PWP-CCPR-2016-019
Christian Dippel, Robert Gold, Stephan Heblich


Agglomeration: A Long-Run Panel Data Approach
PWP-CCPR-2016-018
W. Walker Hanlon, Antonio Miscio


Temporary Shocks and Persistent Effects in Urban Economies: Evidence from British Cities after the US Civil War
PWP-CCPR-2016-017
W. Walker Hanlon


Fertility and Modernity
PWP-CCPR-2016-016
Enrico Spolaore, Romain Wacziarg


Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development
PWP-CCPR-2016-015
Enrico Spolaore, Romain Wacziarg


Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity
PWP-CCPR-2016-014
Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín, Romain Wacziarg


Ancestry, Language and Culture
PWP-CCPR-2016-013
Enrico Spolaore, Romain Wacziarg


Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital
PWP-CCPR-2016-012
Manisha Shah, Bryce Millett Steinberg


Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters
PWP-CCPR-2016-011
Lisa Cameron, Manisha Shah


Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health
PWP-CCPR-2016-010
Scott Cunningham, Manisha Shah


How Does Health Promotion Work? Evidence from the Dirty Business of Eliminating Open Defecation
PWP-CCPR-2016-009
Paul Gertler, Manisha Shah, Maria Laura Alzua, Lisa Cameron, Sebastian Martinez, Sumeet Patil


Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India
PWP-CCPR-2016-008
Manisha Shah, Bryce Millett Steinberg


Initial Conditions Matter: Social Capital and Participatory Development
PWP-CCPR-2016-007
Lisa Cameron, Susan Olivia, Manisha Shah


Highway to Hitler
PWP-CCPR-2016-006
Nico Voigtländer, Hans-Joachim Voth


Input Diffusion and the Evolution of Production Networks
PWP-CCPR-2016-005
Vasco M. Carvalho, Nico Voigtländer


Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains: It’s in the Measure
PWP-CCPR-2016-004
Alvaro Garcia-Marin, Nico Voigtländer


Horizontal vs Vertical Transmission of Fertility Preferences
PWP-CCPR-2016-003
Andrea Di Miceli


Biological and Psychosocial Predictors of Postpartum Depression: Systematic Review and Call for Integration
PWP-CCPR-2016-002
Ilona S. Yim, Lynlee R. Tanner Stapleton, Christine M. Guardino, Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook, Christine Dunkel Schetter


Heterogeneous Grandparent Effects: The Effect of Grandparents’ Education on Grandchildren’s Education in One-Parent and Two-Parent Families
PWP-CCPR-2016-001
Xi Song


Family Ties
PWP-CCPR-2016-022
Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano