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People Move. I Ask Why.

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Does Migration Have an Educational Bias?

Evidence from Available Surveys

I didn’t discuss education in yesterday’s discussion of migration data because the IRS Statistics of Income do not have any educational microdata attached to them. But today I want…

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We Need More Universities

We Also Need Better Data About the Ones We Have!

Noah Smith has a good new article at Bloomberg View. I think he’s spot on on almost everything says here about the need for policies that work to undo much of the…

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Does Migration Make Regional Inequality Worse?

No. But Sudden, Unexpected Shocks to Migration Might!

Today I’m going to review a paper from MIT that argues very interestingly that domestic migration, far from equalizing labor supply…

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San Francisco Is Not Running Out of Kids

I read an article in the New York Times this morning arguing that San Francisco is experiencing some kind of dramatic decline in its number of children. This was interesting to me. But what was more interesting was that they didn’t cite any data about the…

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Religion Doesn’t Impact Education Much

The New York Times Missed the Point

The New York Times today ran an article with the headline “Christians in the US Are Less Educated Than Religious Minorities.” They were discussing this amazingly cool and…

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Puerto Rico and Braaaaaaiiiiins

No Jobs for the Unskilled, No Wages for the Skilled

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What Happened to Migration in 2014?

American Community Survey Edition

Lyman Stone in In a State of Migration

Capital of Nomads: Part 2

Migration Varies Across Demographic Factors