Volume 48 - Article 24 | Pages 681–732 Author has provided data and code for replicating results

Migration’s contribution to the urban transition: Direct census estimates from Africa and Asia

By Philippe Bocquier, Ashira Menashe-Oren, Wanli Nie

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