Ariell Zimran
Biographic Data
| ID | 2102869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ariell Zimran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ariell |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimran |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMRAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Bureau of Economic Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8081-2735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The effects of immigration on agricultural development
We study the effects of immigration during the Age of Mass Migration (1855–1920) on Brazil’s agricultural development in 1920. Instrumenting for a municipality’s immigrant share using the interaction of aggregate immigrant inflows and the expansion of Brazil’s railway network, we find that a greater share of European immigrants in a municipality led to an increase in farm values. The bulk of the effect was the product of more intense cultivation …
International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908
The Messina-Reggio Calabria Earthquake (1908) was one of the most devastating natural disasters in modern European history. It occurred when overseas mass emigration from southern Italy was at its peak and international borders were open, making emigration a readily available option for relief. We find that the earthquake had no large positive impact on emigration on average. There were, however, heterogeneous responses, with a more positive effe…
World War II service and the GI Bill: New evidence on selection and veterans’ outcomes from linked census records
We examine new datasets of records linked between the 1940 and 1950 US censuses to characterize selection into military service during World War II and to analyze differences in veterans’ post-war educational and labor market outcomes relative to nonveterans. Motivated by potentially disparate selection into and effects of service, we pay particular attention to groups distinguished by age, pre-war educational attainment, race, and nativity. We f…
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850-1940
I study native-born white men's internal migration in the United States over all possible 10- and 20-year periods between 1850 and 1940. Inter-county migration rates-after implementing a new method to correct for errors in linkage-were stable over time. Migrant selection on the basis of occupational status was neutral or slightly negative and also largely stable. But the orientation of internal migration changed over time, declining in distance a…
US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration
Recognizing Sample-Selection Bias in Historical Data
Recent research has ignited a debate in social science history over whether and how to draw conclusions for whole populations from sources that describe only select subsets of these populations. The idiosyncratic availability and survival of historical sources create a threat of sample-selection bias—an error that arises when there are systematic differences between the observed sample and the population of interest. This danger is common in stud…
Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States, 1820-1847
I study the impact of transportation on health in the rural United States, 1820-1847. Measuring health by average stature, I find that greater transportation linkage, as measured by market access, in a cohort's county-year of birth had an adverse impact on its health. A one-standard-deviation increase in market access reduced average stature by 0.14 inches, and rising market access over the study period can explain 37 percent of the contemporaneo…
The economic assimilation of Irish Famine migrants to the United States
Sample-Selection Bias and Height Trends in the Nineteenth-Century United States
After adjusting for sample-selection bias, I find a net decline in average stature of 0.64 inches in the birth cohorts of 1832-1860 in the United States. This result supports the veracity of the Antebellum Puzzle-a deterioration of health during early modern economic growth in the United States. However, this adjustment alters the trend in average stature in the same cohort range, validating concerns over bias in the historical heights literature…
Migrant self-selection: Anthropometric evidence from the mass migration of Italians to the United States, 1907–1925
Migrant self-selection: Anthropometric evidence from the mass migration of Italians to the United States, 1907–1925
The economic assimilation of Irish Famine migrants to the United States
Sample-Selection Bias and Height Trends in the Nineteenth-Century United States
After adjusting for sample-selection bias, I find a net decline in average stature of 0.64 inches in the birth cohorts of 1832-1860 in the United States. This result supports the veracity of the Antebellum Puzzle-a deterioration of health during early modern economic growth in the United States. However, this adjustment alters the trend in average stature in the same cohort range, validating concerns over bias in the historical heights literature…
Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States, 1820-1847
I study the impact of transportation on health in the rural United States, 1820-1847. Measuring health by average stature, I find that greater transportation linkage, as measured by market access, in a cohort's county-year of birth had an adverse impact on its health. A one-standard-deviation increase in market access reduced average stature by 0.14 inches, and rising market access over the study period can explain 37 percent of the contemporaneo…
World War II service and the GI Bill: New evidence on selection and veterans’ outcomes from linked census records
We examine new datasets of records linked between the 1940 and 1950 US censuses to characterize selection into military service during World War II and to analyze differences in veterans’ post-war educational and labor market outcomes relative to nonveterans. Motivated by potentially disparate selection into and effects of service, we pay particular attention to groups distinguished by age, pre-war educational attainment, race, and nativity. We f…
Recognizing Sample-Selection Bias in Historical Data
Recent research has ignited a debate in social science history over whether and how to draw conclusions for whole populations from sources that describe only select subsets of these populations. The idiosyncratic availability and survival of historical sources create a threat of sample-selection bias—an error that arises when there are systematic differences between the observed sample and the population of interest. This danger is common in stud…
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850-1940
I study native-born white men's internal migration in the United States over all possible 10- and 20-year periods between 1850 and 1940. Inter-county migration rates-after implementing a new method to correct for errors in linkage-were stable over time. Migrant selection on the basis of occupational status was neutral or slightly negative and also largely stable. But the orientation of internal migration changed over time, declining in distance a…
Migrant self-selection: Anthropometric evidence from the mass migration of Italians to the United States, 1907–1925
The economic assimilation of Irish Famine migrants to the United States
Sample-Selection Bias and Height Trends in the Nineteenth-Century United States
After adjusting for sample-selection bias, I find a net decline in average stature of 0.64 inches in the birth cohorts of 1832-1860 in the United States. This result supports the veracity of the Antebellum Puzzle-a deterioration of health during early modern economic growth in the United States. However, this adjustment alters the trend in average stature in the same cohort range, validating concerns over bias in the historical heights literature…
Recognizing Sample-Selection Bias in Historical Data
Recent research has ignited a debate in social science history over whether and how to draw conclusions for whole populations from sources that describe only select subsets of these populations. The idiosyncratic availability and survival of historical sources create a threat of sample-selection bias—an error that arises when there are systematic differences between the observed sample and the population of interest. This danger is common in stud…
Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States, 1820-1847
I study the impact of transportation on health in the rural United States, 1820-1847. Measuring health by average stature, I find that greater transportation linkage, as measured by market access, in a cohort's county-year of birth had an adverse impact on its health. A one-standard-deviation increase in market access reduced average stature by 0.14 inches, and rising market access over the study period can explain 37 percent of the contemporaneo…
US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850-1940
I study native-born white men's internal migration in the United States over all possible 10- and 20-year periods between 1850 and 1940. Inter-county migration rates-after implementing a new method to correct for errors in linkage-were stable over time. Migrant selection on the basis of occupational status was neutral or slightly negative and also largely stable. But the orientation of internal migration changed over time, declining in distance a…
International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908
The Messina-Reggio Calabria Earthquake (1908) was one of the most devastating natural disasters in modern European history. It occurred when overseas mass emigration from southern Italy was at its peak and international borders were open, making emigration a readily available option for relief. We find that the earthquake had no large positive impact on emigration on average. There were, however, heterogeneous responses, with a more positive effe…
World War II service and the GI Bill: New evidence on selection and veterans’ outcomes from linked census records
We examine new datasets of records linked between the 1940 and 1950 US censuses to characterize selection into military service during World War II and to analyze differences in veterans’ post-war educational and labor market outcomes relative to nonveterans. Motivated by potentially disparate selection into and effects of service, we pay particular attention to groups distinguished by age, pre-war educational attainment, race, and nativity. We f…
The effects of immigration on agricultural development
We study the effects of immigration during the Age of Mass Migration (1855–1920) on Brazil’s agricultural development in 1920. Instrumenting for a municipality’s immigrant share using the interaction of aggregate immigrant inflows and the expansion of Brazil’s railway network, we find that a greater share of European immigrants in a municipality led to an increase in farm values. The bulk of the effect was the product of more intense cultivation …
Economics (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 works)