Details about Ran Abramitzky

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Working Papers

2025

1. Economic Crisis and Disillusionment from Socialism: Evidence From a Quasi-Natural Experiment
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
2. Enclaves and Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration: Evidence from Ethnic Catholic Churches
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
3. Finding John Smith: Using Extra Information for Historical Record Linkage
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
4. Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
5. Intergenerational Mobility over Two Centuries
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
6. New Data and Insights in Regional and Urban Economics
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2024

7. Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
8. The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2023

9. Financial Crisis in a Socialist Setting: Impact on Political Behavior, Social Trust, and Economic Values
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
10. Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1870–2020
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
11. The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone: Evidence from African-American Siblings in 1870–1940
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
12. The Refugee Advantage: English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)

2022

13. Persecution and Migrant Self-Selection: Evidence from the Collapse of the Communist Bloc
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
14. The Effect of Labor Market Liberalization on Political Behavior and Free Market Norms
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2021

15. The Effect of Immigration on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure
    Research Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

2020

16. Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (22)
17. Were Jews in Interwar Poland More Educated?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2019

18. Automated Linking of Historical Data
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (46)
19. Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)
20. The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
21. The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (33)

2018

22. Linking Individuals Across Historical Sources: a Fully Automated Approach
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
23. The Long-Term Spillover Effects of Changes in the Return to Schooling
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)

2016

24. Cultural Assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (50)
25. Immigration in American Economic History
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (17)
26. To the New World and Back Again: Return Migrants in the Age of Mass Migration
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2015

27. Economics and the Modern Economic Historian
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (62)

2014

28. Book Translations as Idea Flows: The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (25)

2012

29. A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (29)
30. Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence From Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)

2011

31. How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistribution Policies and in Returns
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)

2010

32. Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (83)

Journal Articles

2010

1. Is Hanukkah Responsive to Christmas?
   Economic Journal, 2010, 120, (545), 612-630 View citations (5)

2009

2. The effect of redistribution on migration: Evidence from the Israeli kibbutz
   Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, (3-4), 498-511 View citations (46)

2007

3. The Limits of Equality: An Economic Analysis of the Israeli Kibbutz
   The Journal of Economic History, 2007, 67, (2), 495-499 View citations (3)

2006

4. Migration and Human Capital: Self-Selection of Indentured Servants to the Americas
   The Journal of Economic History, 2006, 66, (4), 882-905 View citations (13)