The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Justin Wiltshire, University of California, Davis; Derek Rury, University of Chicago. Harris School of Public Policy; Giovanni Peri, University of California, Davis

Version:  View help for Version V1

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maria_replication_package.zip application/zip 54.7 MB 04/20/2022 11:30:PM

Project Citation: 

Wiltshire, Justin, Rury, Derek, and Peri, Giovanni. The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-04-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E168041V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Description: Data and code for replication of "The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria" in The Journal of Human Resources

Authors: Justin C. Wiltshire, Derek Rury, and Giovanni Peri

Important notes: The package takes a few days to fully run on a fast system using Stata MP

What the provided code does:
- Downloads and cleans QCEW data
- Cleans (included) QWI and Zillow data
- Merges in FEMA application data (included) aggregated by commuting zone
- Creates summary statistics and maps
- Conducts primary analyses and robustness checks

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms immigrants; labor force; labor economics; immigrant workers
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1/1/2013 – 9/30/2018

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Commuting zone by industry by demographic group
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit Commuting Zones

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V1 [2022-04-21]

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