Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the age of mass migration
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- 31 May 2013
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- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Development Economics
- Vol. 102, 2-14
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.08.004
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