Schlenker, Wolfram; Feng, Shuaizhang; Oppenheimer, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We investigate the link between agricultural productivity and net migration in the United States using a county-level panel for the most recent period of 1970-2009. In rural counties of the Corn Belt, we find a statistically significant relationship between changes in net outmigration and...