Bandiera, Oriana; Rasul, Imran; Viarengo, Martina - In: Journal of Development Economics 102 (2013) C, pp. 23-47
We provide new estimates of migrant flows into and out of America during the Age of Mass Migration at the turn of the twentieth century. Our analysis is based on a novel data set of administrative records covering the universe of 24 million migrants who entered Ellis Island, New York between...