Bakker, Jan David; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rauch, Ferdinand - Weltbank - 2019
across the continent. The paper exploits a natural experiment, the abolition of South African pass laws, to explore how … exogenous population shocks affect the spatial distribution of economic activity. Under apartheid, black South Africans were …, the authors study the effect of migration on urbanization in South Africa. While they find that on average there is no …