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Michael Clemens

Michael Clemens is an economist at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC and the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany. His book The Walls of Nations is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

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The debate over the Mariel boatlift, a crucial immigration case study, explained.

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