Enclaves outside the exclusion zone boomed, gaining roughly 0.8 Japanese Americans for every Japanese American who was already there. These new enclaves, however, remained smaller than their West Coast predecessors.

We find: The locations of Japanese enclaves proved remarkably resilient. But historic West Coast Japantowns lost 25–50% of their prewar Japanese American populations. The vacancies created by internment were filled almost one-for-one by Black households.

We digitize enumeration-district maps from the 1940 and 1950 censuses for 14 cities (representing newly every city with a significant Japanese population) and use them to track racial composition changes across thousands of neighborhoods.

During WWII, the U.S. government incarcerated all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast (the “exclusion zone”) in internment camps. While there is a large literature on how internment affected the internees themselves, far less is known about what happened to the Japantowns they left behind.

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Pim Pinitjitsamut’s fields are crime, urban, and labor economics. Her JMP studies the effect of arbitration caps on police performance in New Jersey.

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Ji Hye Choi’s fields are labor, household/gender economics, and crime. Her JMP studies the mechanism through which marriage reduces male criminal behavior, focusing on bargaining power within the household.

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Despite the increase in anti-vaccine discourse, pro-mandate court decisions still reduced mortality. In short, while mandates did energize the anti-vaccine movement, this backlash wasn't large enough to negate the mortality benefits. N/N

We then measure how court decisions upholding vaccine mandates affect anti-vaccine discourse. Pro-mandate decisions led to a rise in anti-vaccine discourse for two years before returning to baseline. 4/N

We use ML models to measure anti-smallpox vaccine discourse in American newspapers. Below is an example from a particularly anti-vaccine paper: 3/N

A common argument is that vaccine mandates might be counterproductive because they energize the anti-vaccine movement, potentially rendering mandates ineffective. 2/N