Leah Platt Boustan

Escape from the City: The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Postwar Suburbanization

Year: 2007
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan

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

Year: 2007
Journal: Journal of Labor Economics
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Price V. Fishback; Shawn E. Kantor

Was Postwar Suburbanization White Flight? Evidence from the Black Migration

Year: 2007
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan

Race Segregation and Postal Employment: New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch

Year: 2007
Journal: Journal of Urban Economics
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Robert A. Margo

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

Year: 2008
Journal: Journal of Economic History
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan

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

Year: 2010
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Ran Abramitzky; Leah Platt Boustan; Katherine Eriksson

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

Year: 2010
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Fernando Ferreira; Hernan Winkler; Eric Zolt

Demography and Population Loss from Central Cities, 1950-2000

Year: 2010
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Allison Shertzer

School Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries

Year: 2010
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan

White Suburbanization and African American Home Ownership, 1940-1980

Year: 2011
Journal: Journal of Urban Economics
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Robert A. Margo

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

Year: 2012
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Ran Abramitzky; Leah Platt Boustan; Katherine Eriksson

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

Year: 2012
Journal: Journal of Development Economics
Authors: Ran Abramitzky; Leah Platt Boustan; Katherine Eriksson

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

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; William J. Collins

Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Devin Bunten; Owen Hearey

Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan

Immigration in American Economic History

Year: 2016
Journal: Journal of Economic Literature
Authors: Ran Abramitzky; Leah Platt Boustan

Cultural Assimilation During the Age of Mass Migration

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Ran Abramitzky; Leah Platt Boustan; Katherine Eriksson

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

Year: 2016
Journal: ILR Review
Authors: Ran Abramitzky; Leah Platt Boustan; Katherine Eriksson

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

Year: 2017
Journal: Journal of Urban Economics
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Matthew E. Kahn; Paul W. Rhode; Maria Lucia Yanguas

Variation in Women's Success Across PhD Programs in Economics

Year: 2019
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Andrew Langan

Automated Linking of Historical Data

Year: 2019
Journal: Journal of Economic Literature
Authors: Ran Abramitzky; Leah Platt Boustan; Katherine Eriksson; James J. Feigenbaum; Santiago Pérez

Does Condominium Development Lead to Gentrification?

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Robert A. Margo; Matthew M. Miller; James M. Reeves; Justin P. Steil

Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US Over Two Centuries

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Ran Abramitzky; Leah Platt Boustan; Elisa J. Come; Santiago Pérez

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

Year: 2019
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Philipp Ager; Leah Platt Boustan; Katherine Eriksson

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

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Ran Abramitzky; Philipp Ager; Leah Platt Boustan; Elior Cohen; Casper W. Hansen

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

Year: 2020
Journal: Journal of Economic History
Authors: Ran Abramitzky; Leah Platt Boustan; Dylan Connor

Automation after the Assembly Line: Computerized Machine Tools, Employment, and Productivity in the United States

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Jiwon Choi; David Clingingsmith

The Refugee Advantage: English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Ran Abramitzky; Leah Platt Boustan; Peter Catron; Dylan Connor; Rob Voigt

Lawabiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1850-2020

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Ran Abramitzky; Leah Platt Boustan; Elisa Jcome; Santiago Prez; Juan David Torres

White Flight from Asian Immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools

Year: 2023
Journal: Journal of Urban Economics
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Christine Cai; Tammy Tseng