Locations, Outcomes, and Selective Migration
利用人口普查微观数据，证明一代人的选择性迁移与下一代的经济结果之间存在强关联，并以此解释黑人群体中隔离水平与个人结果之间关系变化的谜题。
Studies attempting to link locational attributes and individual outcomes often focus on children or young adults, under the presumption that their location was exogenously determined by their parents. This strategy is more difficult to justify if parents migrate selectively and tend to transmit their own characteristics to their children. This paper uses Census microdata to document a strong link between selective migration in one generation and economic outcomes in the next. I show that selective migration is a possible explanation for a puzzle in the existing literature: the changing relationship between segregation levels and individual outcomes within the black population. © 2002 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.