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Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investments

Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investments

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Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investments

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Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investments

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal title

The Review of economic studies, 2019-07, Vol.86 (4 (309)), p.1448-1486

Language

English

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Oxford University Press

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Contents

We use 130 years of data on historical migrations to the U.S. to show a causal effect of the ancestry composition of U.S. counties on foreign direct investment (FDI) sent and received by local firms. To isolate the causal effect of ancestry on FDI, we build a simple reduced-form model of migrations: Migrations from a foreign country to a U.S. count...

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Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investments

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TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_DiVA_org_su_176630

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_DiVA_org_su_176630

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ISSN

0034-6527,1467-937X

E-ISSN

1467-937X

DOI

10.1093/restud/rdy044

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