Migration, Specialization, and Trade: Evidence from Brazil's March to the West

We thank Dominick Bartelme, Jonathan Eaton, Andrei Levchenko, Steve Redding, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Matthew Turner for helpful comments, as well as Walter Steingress, João Paulo Pessoa, and Ferdinando Monte for useful discussions. We also thank participants in seminars at Purdue, Michigan, NYU Abu Dhabi, St. Louis Fed, IADB, TIGN-LACEA, Middlebury, RMET, UEA, FGV/EESP, Banco Central de Colombia, Insper, UFABC, Banco Central de Chile, UCLA, Berkeley ARE, Aarhus, the World Bank, NBER Agricultural Trade Policy, ETOS-FREIT, Princeton, CAF, SBE 2020 Meeting, and the Econometric Society 2021 Meetings. Andrés Fajardo, Natalia Martinez Camelo, Brian Cevallos Fujiy, and Elliot Kang provided excellent research assistance. Financial support from the Michigan Institute for Teaching and Research in Economics (MITRE) is gratefully acknowledged. Sotelo thanks the IES at Princeton for its hospitality and funding during part of this research. E-mail: heitor.pellegrina@nyu.edu and ssotelo@umich.edu. All 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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