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  1. The Great Migration (1910-1970)

    Boys outside of the Stateway Gardens Housing Project on the South Side of Chicago, May, 1973 (NAID 556163) The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s. The driving force behind the mass movement was ...

  2. Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration

    Evidence from the Great Migration†. This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940-1970) reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can explain 27 percent of the region's racial upward mobility gap today.

  3. The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration

    Once there, to keep teenage Jacob safe from the streets, she enrolled her eldest son in an after-school arts program that would set the course of his life. Lawrence would go on to create "The ...

  4. The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South: A ...

    William J. Collins, 2020. "The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South: A guide and interpretation," Explorations in Economic History, . citation courtesy of. Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics ...

  5. PDF Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration

    Song provided excellent research assistance. This paper benefited from participants' comments at the First WID World Conference, the Calvo-Armengol Workshop, and seminars at Harvard, Berkeley, and ... This paper tests whether the Great Migration (termed "Migration") reduced northern cities' ability to facilitate black intergenerational ...

  6. The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African Americans

    The Great Migration - the massive migration of African Americans. out of the rural South to largely urban locations in the North, Midwest, and West - was a landmark event in US history. Our paper shows that this migration increased mortality of African Americans. born in the early twentieth century South.

  7. The effects of the Great Migration on urban renewal☆

    Despite substantial economic gains among participants of the Great Migration, research also documents that Black migrants suffered negative health consequences and Black children growing up in receiving cities decades later experienced reduced ... This paper examines the effect of the Great Migration on receiving cities' urban renewal efforts

  8. PDF The Great Migration

    The Great Migration. In the years preceding World War I, a slow but steady migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North began. This was the beginning of a phenomenon called the Great Migration. The rationale for leaving the South was different for every migrant, but largely, the hope for a better life was paramount.

  9. Great Migration

    Great Migration, in U.S. history, the movement of millions of African Americans from rural communities in the South to urban areas in Northern states during the 20th century. In 1900 nearly eight million Black people—about 90 percent of all Black Americans—lived in the South. From 1916 to 1970, during the Great Migration, an estimated six ...

  10. PDF Nber Working Paper Series the Great Migration of Black Americans From

    draws most scholars to study the Great Migration—it is hard to understand the modern United States without some appreciation for how the Great Migration transformed it. In this paper, I review some of the literature's major questions and answers about the Great Migration, many of which are grounded in micro-econometric approaches to the ...

  11. Second-Generation Outcomes of the Great Migration

    In this study, we analyze the long-term outcomes for the Great Migration's second generation using novel longitudinal data constructed by linking individuals in the 1940 census to the 2000 census long form. These data allow us to observe the location of individuals in 1940 and 2000 as well as the location of their own and parents' birthplaces.

  12. Great Migration: Definition, Causes & Impact

    The Great Migration was the movement of more than 6 million Black Americans from the South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970.

  13. Primary Source Set The Great Migration

    From the 1910s to 1970, one of the largest internal migrations in the history of the United States took place. Millions of African Americans moved from rural to urban centers and from southeastern states to the north and west. This exodus, which came to be called "the Great Migration," transformed American life in the 20th century and beyond.

  14. PDF Nber Working Paper Series the Great Migration and Civil Rights

    ABSTRACT. Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination.

  15. Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration

    Article Information; Abstract This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940-1970) reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can explain 27 percent of the region's racial upward mobility gap today.

  16. PDF The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

    Disclaimer: This Philadelphia Fed working paper represents preliminary research that is being circulated for discussion purposes. The views expressed in these papers are solely those of ... 1We follow other studies of the Great Migration by referring to the non-South as the "North" for convenience. 2. children had relatively high levels of ...

  17. The Great Migration Research Papers

    The present research has focused on the comparative history of the Gepidic Kingdom in the Carpathian Basin from the early migration period till the disintegration of its political structures. The Gepids, who spoke an Eastern-Germanic language, ruled the eastern part of the Carpathian Basin between the Hunnic and Avaric periods.

  18. Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration [Job

    As early as the 1960s, the Migration led to greater white enrollment in private schools, increased spending on policing, and higher crime and incarceration rates. I estimate that the overall change in childhood environment induced by the Great Migration explains 43% of the upward mobility gap between black and white men in the region today.

  19. The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

    The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity Cavit Baran Eric Chyn Bryan A. Stuart February 28, 2023 Abstract This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants.

  20. The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

    This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South to North. Many counties that had the strongest ...

  21. The Great Migration Essay

    The foundation of the Great Migration was inarguably however, the great strides that were made Black migrants outlined this time period as an iconic age of social change. Therefore, despite the racist, unsuccessful premise of the Great Migration, it triumphantly propelled America into a new age. Bibliography Learning Infobase Learning Login.

  22. The Great Migration: Urban Aspirations

    The great 21st-century migration into cities will present both a great challenge for humanity and a significant opportunity for global economic growth. This paper describes the diverse patterns that define this metropolitan migration.

  23. PDF The Great Migration

    The Great Migration: Urban Aspirations . Michael Keith, COMPAS, University of Oxford. Keywords: migration, cities, economic growth, urban . JEL codes: R23, R10 . This paper benefited greatly from research assistant support from Nicholas Simcik-Arese. This paper is part of a collection of papers prepared for the World Bank's Sixth Urban Research and

  24. South Sudan is home to 'world's largest land mammal migration.' War

    New research shows that more than 5 million antelope cross South Sudan each year - blowing the famous Serengeti migration out of the water. ... referred to as "the Great Nile Migration ...

  25. Simulation and solution of a proppant migration and ...

    The distribution of proppant during hydraulic fracturing may directly contribute to the flow conductivity of the proppant fracture, so research on the migration and sedimentation of proppant in the fracture and the final distribution pattern is of great relevance. The mass conservation equations of proppant solids and fracturing fluid were adopted to describe the distribution of proppant ...