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Thomas
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PhD student at UBC.

Econ history etc.
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this is what we were working off of, if you're interested in recent-ish immigrant cohorts it works great (esp if you supplement with other data), otherwise less so
Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today Than in the Past?
(March 2020) - Using millions of historical census records and modern birth certificates, we document that immigrants assimilated into US society at similar rates in the past and present. We measure c...
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March 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
we did this for a 1940s sample and got not-great results trying to recover census racial categories, but decent results for country of origin/ethnic background
March 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM