Plausibly Exogenous [1792] - Immigration (12/29/2024)
LHS Variable
Quality of economic institutions
RHS Variable
Immigration
Source of Exogenous Variation
The relaxation of emigration restrictions in the Soviet Union and the State’s subsequent collapse led to a large exogenous shock to Israel’s immigrant flows because Israel allows unrestricted immigration for world-wide Jews.
- Powell, Clark, and Nowrasteh (2017), “Does mass immigration destroy institutions? 1990s Israel as a natural experiment”