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Articles by Gregory T. Niemesh
DP21920 Immigration and Child Mortality During the Age of Mass Migration
English Français Deutsch Italiano 中文 More Español Ελληνικά 日本語 Português Türkçe In the late nineteenth century, Americans feared that crowded immigrant neighborhoods were spreading disease through industrial cities. We study this claim using newly constructed town-level panel data from Massachusetts, 1860 to 1915, a setting uniquely suited to this exercise because its early vital registration system allows consistent measurement of mortality before national registration became widespread.
Immigration and Child Mortality during the Age of Mass Migration
We thank seminar participants at UC-Davis, Miami University, and the SSHA Meeting in 2021. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Copy Citation Katherine Eriksson, Peter Zhixian Lin, and Gregory Niemesh, "Immigration and Child Mortality during the Age of Mass Migration," NBER Working Paper 35743 (2026), https://doi.org/10.3386/w35743. Download Citation MARC RIS BibTeΧ Related
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Reva Balakrishnan, Abi James, Simran Kalkat, and Daniel Scates provided excellent research assistance. We have benefited from helpful comments from Leah Boustan, Gregory Clark, Matthew Curtis, José Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Walker Hanlon, Bhashkar Mazumder, Joel Mokyr, Charles Moul, and Melissa Thomasson.
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Understanding the Success of the Know-Nothing Party
We thank seminar participants at UC-Davis, the 2017 NBER DAE Egg Timer Session, All U.C. Economic History Conference, Economic History Association Meetings, University of Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, Australian National University, NHH, Paris School of Economics, Yale University, Northwestern University, Pitt/CMU Seminar Series, the Virtual Economic History Seminar, the 2020 NBER DAE Summer Institute, and the Online Economics of Migration seminar series.
Unions and the Great Compression of wage inequality in the US at mid‐century: evidence from local labour markets
† The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of IPUMS‐USA staff members in using the new 1960 5 per cent sample, as well as helpful input from three referees, Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Brant Callaway, Michael Edelstein, William Even, James Feigenbaum, Alex Field, Andrew Goodman‐Bacon, Taylor Jaworski, Ilyana Kuziemko, Robert Margo, Suresh Naidu, Marianne Wanamaker, Ariell Zimran, and seminar participants at Queen's University (Canada), the National Bureau of Economic Research...
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