The Effects of Immigration on Agricultural Development: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration

For helpful comments, we thank Aprajit Mahajan (the editor), two anonymous referees, Giovanni Peri, Luis Baldomero-Quintana, Leah Boustan, William Collins, Andrew Dustan, Martín Fernández-Sánchez, Martín Fiszbein, Gordon Hanson, Richard Hornbeck, David Jaeger, Brian Marein, Aldo Musacchio, Blanca Sánchez-Alonso, Sandra Sequeira, Koleman Strumpf, Marco Tabellini, João Tampellini, John Wallis, and Zach Ward; seminar participants at UC Davis, Baylor University, Brandeis University, the College of William and Mary, Harvard University, the London School of Economics, the University of Bonn, the University of Manchester, the University of Newcastle, the University of York, Wageningen University, Wake Forest University, and Vanderbilt University; and conference participants at the 2021 Markets and Policy in History Workshop, the 2022 Economic History Society Conference, the 2022 European Historical Economics Society Conference, the 2022 World Economic History Congress, the 2024 LACEA-EHN Workshop on Historical Development, the 2024 NICEP Conference, the 2024 Cliometrics Conference, the 2024 Southern Economic Association Meeting, and the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Italian Economic History Association. Jared Katz and Víctor Luna provided excellent research assistance. Renato Colistete kindly shared data with us. This paper was previously circulated under the title "The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration." 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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