In "American education in the age of mass migrations 1870–1930," published June 13, 2009 by Springer Berlin in the Online First articles of Cliometrica, IQSS Visiting Fellow Martina Viarengo and coauthor and economist Fabrice Murtin examine the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. Viarengo and Murtin examine flow of migrants, construction of populations, and educational attainment for a 60 year period spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for the impact on education and economic development that can be attributed to mass migration.

Martina Viarengo is Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, at the Program on Education Policy and Governance and Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program. Martina has been examining education policy and labor market outcomes in the European Union and Latin America. Specifically, she has devoted her academic research to understand how to improve access to quality education to reduce poverty and inequality.

See the following page for a preview of Murtin's and Viarengo's article:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/76716061533310h5/fulltext.pdf?page=1