The Aggregate Productivity Effects of Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia

Gharad Bryan, Melanie Morten

NBER Working Paper No. 23540
Issued in June 2017

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We thank Paco Buera, Rebecca Diamond, Dave Donaldson, Greg Fischer, Pete Klenow, David Lagakos, Torsten Perrson, Steve Redding, Daniel Sturm, Adam Sziedl, Michael Waugh, Ben Olken and seminar audiences at the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, Paris School of Economics, Namur, Helsinki, Berkeley, Yale, LSE, Columbia, the University of Chicago, Toronto, NBER SI 2015, Harvard/MIT, and the CEPR/PODER conference for helpful comments and suggestions. Anita Bhide, Allan Hsiao and Jay Lee provided outstanding research assistance. Any errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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