The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration

Stuart, Bryan A.; Taylor, Evan J.

doi:10.1162/rest_a_00860

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“…Our results confirm the findings of qualitative work based on selective survival testimonies that being socially isolated was particularly costly during the Holocaust. Our findings from a situation of extremity also fit well into the literature highlighting the importance of social links in high-stakes (but not deadly) contexts ( 20 – 23 ).…”

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Preexisting social ties among Auschwitz prisoners support Holocaust survival

Bělín

Jelínek

Jurajda

2023

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Survivor testimonies link survival in deadly POW camps, Gulags, and Nazi concentration camps to the formation of close friendships with other prisoners. To provide evidence free of survival bias on the importance of social ties for surviving the Holocaust, we study individual histories of 30 thousand Jewish prisoners who entered the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on transports from the Theresienstadt ghetto. We ask whether the availability of potential friends among fellow prisoners on a transport influenced the chances of surviving the Holocaust. Relying on multiple proxies of preexisting social networks and varying social-linkage composition of transports, we uncover a significant survival advantage to entering Auschwitz with a larger group of potential friends.

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confidence: 87%

Preexisting social ties among Auschwitz prisoners support Holocaust survival

Bělín

Jelínek

Jurajda

2023

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…The inclusion of these controls does not significantly alter the point estimates, and I report key results with and without this baseline set of controls in Tables 8 and 9. 12 10 Exceptions include Black et al (2015), Stuart and Taylor (2021a), and Stuart and Taylor (2021b), who use the Duke SSA/Medicare dataset, no longer available to new researchers. Boustan (2010) uses census tabulations with migrants' 1935 state of residence to construct southern-state-to-northern-city migration shares.…”

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Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration

Derenoncourt

2022

American Economic Review

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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. I identify northern Black share increases by interacting pre-1940 Black migrants’ location choices with predicted southern county out-migration. Locational changes, not negative selection of families, explain lower upward mobility, with persistent segregation and increased crime and policing as plausible mechanisms. The case of the Great Migration provides a more nuanced view of moving to opportunity when destination reactions are taken into account. (JEL H75, H76, J15, J62, K42, N32, R23)

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“…Finally, this paper relates to research on the Great Migration of Black individuals out of the South (Boustan, 2010;Collins and Wanamaker, 2015;Boustan, 2016;Shertzer and Walsh, 2019;Calderon, Fouka and Tabellini, 2020;Stuart and Taylor, 2021;Derenoncourt, 2022;Baran, Chyn and Stuart, 2022). Our work is most closely related to important recent work by Derenoncourt (2022), which provides evidence that Great Migration population flows reduced upward mobility.…”

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confidence: 76%