Rural-Urban Migration and Socioeconomic Mobility
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I would like to thank my advisors, Joel Mokyr, Joe Ferrie, and Joe Altonji, for their helpful comments. I also benefited from conversations with Henry Siu, Jim Sullivan and Chris Taber, and from input from workshop participants at Northwestern University and participants of the 2002 All-UC Group in Economic History Conference and the 2002 Cliometrics Conference. Justin Hayes and Humphrey Southall provided me with data. This research was greatly aided by a Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant and a Pew Younger Scholars Program Fellowship.
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