Leah Platt Boustan

Princeton University

22 Chambers Street

Princeton, NJ 08544-0708

United States

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Scholarly Papers (18)

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

NBER Working Paper No. w23410
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 18 May 2017 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2023
Princeton University, University of Southern California, University of Michigan at Ann ArborUniversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War

NBER Working Paper No. w25700
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 01 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2023
Philipp Ager, Leah Platt Boustan and Katherine Eriksson
University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics, Princeton University and University of California, Davis
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The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13660
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 16 Apr 2019
Philipp Ager, Leah Platt Boustan and Katherine Eriksson
University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics, Princeton University and University of California, Davis
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Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1870-2020

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 591
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 27 Jun 2024
Stanford University, Princeton University, Northwestern University, University of California, Davis and Stanford University
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The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 28 Jan 2020
Stanford University, University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics, Princeton University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics and University of CopenhagenUniversity of Copenhagen - Department of Economics
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The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure

NBER Working Paper No. w26536
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 09 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2023
Stanford University, University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics, Princeton University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of CopenhagenUniversity of Copenhagen - Department of Economics
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The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14165
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 17 Dec 2019
Stanford University, University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics, Princeton University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of CopenhagenUniversity of Copenhagen - Department of Economics
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Immigration Restrictions, labor mobility, Local Labor Markets

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The Effect of Immigration on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 05 Oct 2021
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Stanford University, University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics, University of CopenhagenUniversity of Copenhagen - Department of Economics, Federal Reserve Bank Kansas City and Princeton University
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Intergenerational Mobility Over Two Centuries

NBER Working Paper No. w33330
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 07 Jan 2025
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan and Tamar Matiashvili
Stanford University, Princeton University and Stanford University
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Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17711
Number of pages: 294 Posted: 18 Feb 2025
Princeton University, University of Oxford - Department of Economics, Stanford University, Northwestern University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), University of California, Davis, Princeton University, Uppsala University, Yale University, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute, Paris School of Economics, Gesundheit Österreich GmbH (GÖG), Public Policy Group, University of Cambridge, The Australian National University, CNRS, University College London, ETH Zürich - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Bank of England, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Faculty of Economics, Paris School of Economics (PSE), Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), NHH Norwegian School of Economics - Department of Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ETH Zürich - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, London School of Economics, Opportunity Insights, Charles III University of Madrid, Princeton University, University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)Vienna University of Economics and Business, Duke University - Stanford School of Public Policy, Duke University and Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI)
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immigration, intergenerational mobility

Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries

NBER Working Paper No. w33558
Number of pages: 295 Posted: 10 Mar 2025
Princeton University, University of Oxford - Department of Economics, Stanford University, Northwestern University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), University of California, Davis, Princeton University, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Yale University, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) - Department of Economics, Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute, Paris School of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Public Policy Group, University of Cambridge, The Australian National University, CNRS, University College London, ETH Zürich, Bank of England, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Faculty of Economics, Paris School of Economics (PSE), IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, NHH Norwegian School of Economics - Department of Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ETH Zürich - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, Opportunity Insights, Charles III University of Madrid, Princeton University, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Central European University (CEU), Duke University - Stanford School of Public Policy, McMaster University and Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI)
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8.

Does Condominium Development Lead to Gentrification?

NBER Working Paper No. w26170
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2023
Princeton University, Boston University, Audible, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the Us Over Two Centuries

NBER Working Paper No. w26408
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 30 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2022
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, Elisa Jacome and Santiago Pérez
Stanford University, Princeton University, Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of California, Davis
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Automated Linking of Historical Data

NBER Working Paper No. w25825
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 13 May 2019 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2023
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Princeton University, University of California, Davis, Boston University - Department of Economics and University of California, Davis
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Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office

NBER Working Paper No. w27372
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 15 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2023
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan and Dylan S. Connor
Stanford University, Princeton University and Arizona State University (ASU)
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Variation in Women's Success Across Phd Programs in Economics

NBER Working Paper No. w25444
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023
Leah Platt Boustan and Andrew Langan
Princeton University and Princeton University
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Computerized Machine Tools and the Transformation of Us Manufacturing

NBER Working Paper No. w30400
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 29 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2023
Leah Platt Boustan, Jiwon Choi and David Clingingsmith
Princeton University, Brandeis University and Case Western Reserve University
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New Data and Insights in Regional and Urban Economics

NBER Working Paper No. w33561
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 17 Mar 2025 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2025
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan and Adam Storeygard
Stanford University, Princeton University and Tufts University
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White Flight from Asian Immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools

NBER Working Paper No. w31434
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2023
Leah Platt Boustan, Christine Cai and Tammy Tseng
Princeton University, Princeton University and Watershed
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Enclaves and Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration: Evidence from Ethnic Catholic Churches

NBER Working Paper No. w33362
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 22 Jan 2025
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan and Osea Giuntella
Stanford University, Princeton University and University of Pittsburgh
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The Refugee Advantage: English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century

NBER Working Paper No. w31730
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 02 Oct 2023
Stanford University, Princeton University, University of Washington, Arizona State University (ASU) and Northwestern University
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Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the Us-Born, 1870–2020

NBER Working Paper No. w31440
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 10 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2023
Stanford University, Princeton University, Northwestern University, University of California, Davis and Stanford University
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