Episode 36: Ellora Derenoncourt on the Great Migration and economic mobility

Ellora Derenoncourt talks about how the Great Migration affected economic mobility.

"Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration" by Ellora Derenoncourt.

OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

• "Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective" by Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, and Sonya R. Porter.

• "The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects" by Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren.

• "The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimates" by Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren.

• "Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940–1970" by Leah Platt Boustan.

• "Was Postwar Suburbanization 'White Flight'? Evidence from the Black Migration" by Leah Platt Boustan.

• "Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets" by Leah Platt Boustan.

• "Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from US Mass Migration" by Bryan A. Stuart and Evan J. Taylor.

• "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson.

• "Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice" by Peter Bergman, Raj Chetty, Stefanie DeLuca, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence F. Katz, and Christopher Palmer.

• "Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works" by Rucker C. Johnson.

• "The Long-run Economic Effects of School Desegregation" by Cody Tuttle.