Fertility , Migration and Altruism
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* This paper was inspired by a conversation Berman had with his great uncle Rafuel Grinspun, shortly after the latter migrated from the Soviet Union. We appreciate the helpful comments of Lawrence Katz, Kevin Lang, Shlomo Yitzhaki and seminar participants at Boston University, the Hebrew University, Maryland, Yale, Michigan, MIT and an NBER Labor Studies session. We thank the Maurice Falk Institute, Jerusalem, for providing financial support, editing services and data access through the Hebrew University Social Sciences Data Archive.
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