Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment

Early Childhood Conditions and Mortality: Evidence from Japanese American Internment

Using War Relocation Authority records linked to the Social Security Death Index, I investigate how internment during early childhood affected the life expectancy of male internees. Using un-interned Japanese Hawaiians as a control group, difference-in-differences estimates suggest that incarceration within the first four years of life decreased life expectancy by approximately two years. Furth...

The Causal Effect of Place: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment

Recent research has stressed the importance of long-run place effects on income and economic mobility, but the literature has struggled to isolate the causal impact of location. This paper provides new evidence on these effects using administrative data on over 100,000 JapaneseAmericans who were interned during World War II. Internees were conditionally randomly assigned to camps in seven diffe...

The Hypocrisy of Japanese Internment

December 7, 1941 is regarded by the United States as a day of infamy. On this day Japanese Air forces launched a surprise attack against Pearl Harbor and crippled the US Navy. After this day America officially declared war on Japan and entered World War II. However, in public opinion the war was viewed as a war against the Japanese and not against the nation of Japan. These sentiments led to th...

Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Japanese American Internment During World War II on Working-Age Male Internees

In 1942, all Japanese were evacuated from the West Coast and incarcerated in internment camps. To investigate the long-run economic consequences of this historic episode, I exploit the fact that Hawaiian Japanese were not subject to mass internment. I find that the labor market withdrawal induced by the internment reduced the annual earnings of males by as much as nine to thirteen percent twent...

Career Mobility and the Communist Political Order