全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP16820 Forced Displacement and Human Capital: Evidence from Separated Siblings

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP16820
	DP16820 Forced Displacement and Human Capital: Evidence from Separated Siblings
	Giorgio Chiovelli; Stelios Michalopoulos; Elias Papaioannou; Sandra Sequeira
发表日期	2021-12-19
出版年	2021
语种	英语
摘要	We examine the impact of conflict-driven displacement on human capital looking at the Mozambican civil war (1977-1992), during which more than four million civilians fled to the countryside, to cities, and to refugee camps and settlements in neighboring countries. First, we present descriptive patterns linking education and sectoral employment to the various displacement trajectories using the full population census. Second, we compare siblings separated during the war, using those who stayed behind as a counterfactual to one's displacement path. Displacement is associated with increased educational investments, with the largest effects experienced by rural-born children escaping to urban areas. Third, we jointly estimate place-based and uprootedness effects. Both are present, with displacement increasing education and decreasing attachment to agriculture by the same rate as being exposed to an environment approximately one standard deviation more developed than one's birthplace. Fourth, we conduct a survey in Mozambique's largest Northern city, whose population doubled during the civil war. Those displaced to the city have significantly higher education than their siblings who remained in the countryside and they converged to the levels of schooling of non-mover urban born individuals. However, those displaced exhibit significantly lower social/civic capital and have worse mental health, even three decades after the war ended. These findings reveal that displacement shocks can trigger human capital investments, breaking links with subsistence agriculture, but at the cost of long-lasting, social, and psychological traumas.
主题	Development Economics ; Labour Economics
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp16820
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/545746
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Giorgio Chiovelli,Stelios Michalopoulos,Elias Papaioannou,et al. DP16820 Forced Displacement and Human Capital: Evidence from Separated Siblings. 2021.