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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration
Contributor:
Derenoncourt, Ellora
Published:
American Economic Association, 2022
Published in:
American Economic Review, 112 (2022) 2, Seite 369-408
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1257/aer.20200002
ISSN:
0002-8282
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940–1970) reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can explain 27 percent of the region’s racial upward mobility gap today. I identify northern Black share increases by interacting pre-1940 Black migrants’ location choices with predicted southern county out-migration. Locational changes, not negative selection of families, explain lower upward mobility, with persistent segregation and increased crime and policing as plausible mechanisms. The case of the Great Migration provides a more nuanced view of moving to opportunity when destination reactions are taken into account. (JEL H75, H76, J15, J62, K42, N32, R23)