DP18931: Networks, Diversity, and the Economic Performance of Migrants: Evidence from the Pontine Marshes (1932-1941)

This paper uses a historical quasi-natural experiment to provide causal evidence on how networks and diversity affect migrants' economic outcomes in a rural setting. Between 1932 and 1941, Italy's Fascist government relocated about 4,000 families to the Pontine Marshes, a formerly malarial, sparsely