On behalf of the Comparative Advantage Editorial Board, I am honored to present the fifth volume, Winter Issue of the Stanford Undergraduate Economics Journal. We have continued our mission of making economic research more accessible to all audiences. To provide content more frequently to readers, we have moved to publishing two issues per year, mirroring… Continue reading Our Winter 2017-18 Issue
Author: Laura Zhang
BLOG: Are Immigrants Taking Our Jobs? An Economic Analysis of Immigrant Laborers in American Poultry Farms
By Jacob L. Peterson. Ball State University --- Immigrants are taking American jobs, but we are all better off because of it. In today’s political environment, immigrants are viewed as a burden...
Developing Stock Markets and the Real Economy: Investigating Chinese Stock Market Turbulences in the Past 18 years
By Wei Wang. University of California, Berkeley --- This study investigates the relationship between developing stock markets and the real economy by examining the effect of stock market crashes on...
Housing Demand and Labor Supply: The 1962 Algerian Repatriates to France
By Olivia Briffault. Yale University. --- A surprising finding in analyses of the effects of immigration is that immigrants generally have a limited effect on local labor market outcomes. One reason that has been hypothesized is that immigration generates...