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Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration

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Derenoncourt, Ellora·2022·American Economic Review
DOI 10.1257/aer.20200002
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This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940–1970) reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can explain 27 percent of the region’s racial upward mobility gap today. I identify northern Black share increases by interacting pre-1940 Black migrants’ location choices with predicted southern county out-migration. Locational changes, not negative selection of families, explain lower upward mobility, with persistent segregation and increased crime and policing as plausible mechanisms. The case of the Great Migration provides a more nuanced view of moving to opportunity when destination reactions are taken into account. (JEL H75, H76, J15, J62, K42, N32, R23)

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Authors
Derenoncourt, E.
Venue
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2022-02-01
Volume
112
Issue
2
Pages
369-408
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/aer.20200002
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W4224235032
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308
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46
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75.28
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journal article
Language
en
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