| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25400 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25400 |
| Long-run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment: Evidence from the Boll Weevil | |
| Richard B. Baker; John Blanchette; Katherine Eriksson | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-12-24 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The boll weevil spread across the Southern United States from 1892 to 1922 having a devastating impact on cotton cultivation. The resulting shift away from this child labor–intensive crop lowered the opportunity cost of attending school, and thus the pest increased school enrollment and attendance. We investigate the insect’s long run affect on educational attainment using a sample of adults in 1940 linked back to themselves in childhood in the county in which they were likely educated. Both whites and blacks who were young (ages 4 to 9) when the boll weevil arrived saw increased educational attainment by 0.25 to 0.35 years. These findings are not driven by concurrent shocks and are not sensitive to linking method or sample selection. Our results demonstrate the potential for conflict between child labor in agriculture and educational attainment. |
| 主题 | History ; Labor and Health History ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25400 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583074 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Richard B. Baker,John Blanchette,Katherine Eriksson. Long-run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment: Evidence from the Boll Weevil. 2018. |
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