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Title: Social Interactions and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
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Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: This paper examines the role of social interactions in location decisions. We study over one million long-run location decisions made during two landmark migration episodes by African Americans born in the U.S. South and whites born in the Great Plains. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of social interactions for each receiving and sending location. Social interactions strongly influenced the location decisions of black migrants, but were less important for white migrants. Social interactions were particularly important in providing African American migrants with information about attractive employment opportunities and played a larger role in less costly moves.
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Authors: Stuart, Bryan, A; Taylor, Evan, J
Publisher: University of Michigan
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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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