Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from US Mass Migration

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Stuart, Bryan A.; Taylor, Evan J.
• 署名单位: George Washington University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Arizona
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20180294
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 134-175
• 关键词: great migration; social interactions; african-americans; black-migration; IMPACT; selection; DYNAMICS; CHOICE; white

摘要

This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical US migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration networks for each receiving and sending location. Our estimates imply that when one randomly chosen African American moved from a Southern birth town to a destination county, then 1.9 additional Black migrants made the same move on average. For White migrants from the Great Plains, the average is only 0.4. Networks were particularly important in connecting Black migrants with attractive employment opportunities and played a larger role in less costly moves.