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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP12975
	DP12975 Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers
	Sascha O. Becker; Irena Grosfeld; Pauline Grosjean; Nico Voigtländer; Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
发表日期	2018-06-05
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	We exploit a unique historical setting to study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education. After World War II, the Polish borders were redrawn, resulting in large-scale migration. Poles were forced to move from the Kresy territories in the East (taken over by the USSR) and were resettled mostly to the newly acquired Western Territories, from which Germans were expelled. We combine historical censuses with newly collected survey data to show that, while there were no pre-WWII differences in education, Poles with a family history of forced migration are significantly more educated today. Descendants of forced migrants have on average one extra year of schooling, driven by a higher propensity to finish secondary or higher education. This result holds when we restrict ancestral locations to a subsample around the former Kresy border and include fixed effects for the destination of migrants. As Kresy migrants were of the same ethnicity and religion as other Poles, we bypass confounding factors of other cases of forced migration. We show that labor market competition with natives and selection of migrants are also unlikely to drive our results. Survey evidence suggests that forced migration led to a shift in preferences, away from material possessions and towards investment in a mobile asset – human capital. The effects persist over three generations.
主题	Development Economics ; Economic History ; Labour Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Poland Forced migration Uprootedness Human capital
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp12975-3
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541783
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sascha O. Becker,Irena Grosfeld,Pauline Grosjean,et al. DP12975 Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers. 2018.