Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Eriksson, Katherine - In: Journal of Development Economics 102 (2013) C, pp. 2-14
Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913), a time when the US maintained an open border to European immigrants. We do so by exploiting variation in parental...