Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850-1940

For helpful comments, I thank Jeremy Atack, Brian Beach, William Collins, James Feigenbaum, Sarah Quincy; participants in the Junior Economic History Workshop; and seminar participants at Vanderbilt University. Work on this paper was completed while I was a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the William C. Bark National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and while I was a Visiting Scholar at the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; funding from both institutions is gratefully acknowledged. The views expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis or the Federal Reserve System. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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