Prentice, Kha Yen; Konya, Laszlo; Prentice, David - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2013
the first estimates of the quantitative significance of these agents to African American migration. Specifically, we take … migration out of the two states, we find that the emigrant agent laws had no direct effect on migration. Though there is some … limited evidence that the sensitivity of migration flows to economic differences within the South was lower if an emigrant …