The Effect of Immigration Restrictions on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure

Ran Abramitzky; Philipp Ager; Leah Boustan; Elior Cohen; Casper W. Hansen (2022) · American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-134", tranche="tranche150")

Ran Abramitzky; Philipp Ager; Leah Boustan; Elior Cohen; Casper W. Hansen (2022). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Table 1.

Template assessment

The source QE2Xpost multiplies continuous quota exposure by the 1930 period indicator, with region-period and baseline-immigrant-share controls. Binary recoding would change the border-closure exposure estimand.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.