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Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on Immigration Then and Now

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How Do You Find Your Great Grandparents?

Ack: We can look at thousands of thousands of migrants in the inthe census, in the census records. And then once you did that, how do you link them to taxes or census records? You don't have a numerical idea like a social security number. So we have to think, what about a person is so fixed that it won't change by the next census? Ack: There's a variety of algorithms and approaches out there,. i but in theory, you can understand how you might be able to finda liobustan am ten years later, a born in massachusetts sort of thing.

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