Understanding the Long-Run Decline in Interstate Migration: Online Appendix

By Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Greg Kaplan. 2015

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This appendix contains eight sections. Section 1 gives technical details of how we calculate standard errors in the CPS data. Section 2 discusses changes in the ACS procedures before 2005. Section 3 examines demographic and economic patterns in migration over the past two decades, in more detail than in the main paper. Section 4 examines the cross-sectional variance of location-occupation interactions in earnings when we define locations by MSAs instead of states. Section 5 describes alternative methods to estimate the variance of location-occupation interactions in income. Section 6 measures the segregation of industries across states and of occupations and industries across MSAs. Section 7 gives technical details on the use of SIPP and census data to calculate repeat and return migration rates. Section 8 discusses transition dynamics in the model.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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• Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined (2017, unknown): “Second, we repeat this exercise using another predetermined measure based on geographic land availability from Saiz [2010]. Again, we find income convergence declined the most in areas with supply constraints.”
• Trade, pollution and mortality in China (2016, unknown): “5% for US in 2000 (Kaplan and Schulhofer-Wohl, 2012) and the five-year migration rate across districts in India (which is a similar administrative division as prefecture in China) is around 13.”
• The Persistence of Local Joblessness (2018, unknown): “Our result may lend support to the view that the declining migration rate is driven by falling returns to migration, rather than rising mobility costs (Kaplan and Schulhofer-Wohl, 2012).”