Details about Leah Platt Boustan

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Short-id: pbo332

Working Papers

2008

1. Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
2. JOB DECENTRALIZATION AND RESIDENTIAL LOCATION
   Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series, Boston University - Department of Economics

2007

3. Escape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
4. Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment: New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
5. The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
6. Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

Journal Articles

2007

1. Black Migration, White Flight: The Effect of Black Migration on Northern Cities and Labor Markets
   The Journal of Economic History, 2007, 67, (02), 484-488
2. The New Suburban History. Edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 289. $24, paper
   The Journal of Economic History, 2007, 67, (01), 243-245

2005

3. Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States. Edited by Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. Pp. ix, 390. $45.00
   The Journal of Economic History, 2005, 65, (02), 583-585