Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today Than in the Past? (March 2020) - Using millions of historical census records and modern birth certificates, we document that immigrants assimilated into US society at similar rates in the past and present. We measure c...

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this is what we were working off of, if you're interested in recent-ish immigrant cohorts it works great (esp if you supplement with other data), otherwise less so

we did this for a 1940s sample and got not-great results trying to recover census racial categories, but decent results for country of origin/ethnic background

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #707,075!

started the phd and they're forcing me to do equivalence proofs for the first time in five years

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