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Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on Immigration Then and Now
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Do You Have an Ancestry Dot Com?
In the 19 30 census, what they did was to digitize those records so that you can type it in the comfort of your computer. We're using very flexible relationships between occupation, age and state. So essentially, those three elements of a person can get very close to telling us their true income. And then we're running into trouble with trying to kind of backcast that back through history. But that's really just, you know, we're looking under the lamp post of what's aveilr doing the best you can.
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