The effect of redistribution on migration: Evidence from the Israeli kibbutz
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☆ This paper was previously circulated as: “Testing Adeline Delavande, Zvi Eckstein, Joe Ferrie, Avner Greif Rob Porter, William Rogerson, Izi Sin, Kathy Spier, Luis grateful to Raj Chetty (the editor) and to two anonymo Institute for Economic Research in Israel, and the Sapi E-mail address: [email protected]. 1 See, for example Epple and Romer (1991), Feldste 2 This model of self-selection originated with Roy (
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