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Prepared for the Panel on New Directions in Research Methods, Conference on New Directions in Theory and Methods of Immigration and Ethnicity Research, Duke University, Durham, NC, 15–17 May 1981.

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Papademetriou, D.G., Hopple, G.W. Causal modeling in international migration research: A methodological prolegomenon. Qual Quant 16, 369–402 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00209712

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