Plausibly Exogenous [1161] - Immigration Shocks (04/07/2023)
LHS Variable
Innovation and growth
RHS Variable
Immigration
Source of Exogenous Variation
quasi-random variation in the ancestry composition of US counties, given the tendency of newly arriving migrants to settle in US counties with large pre-existing communities of the same origin
- Burchardi et al. (2021), “Immigration, Innovation, and Growth”