Calendrier du 10 avril 2018
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 10/04/2018 de 17:00 à 18:00
Jourdan - R1-13
TONDINI Alessandro(Paris School of Economics)
BATUT Cyprien(Paris School of Economics)
Working Hours Legislation, Employment and Productivity: Within-Country Evidence from Europe
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 10/04/2018 de 16:30 à 19:00
PSE-CEPII MIGRATION SEMINAR Salle R1-09 48 Boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
ADSERA Alicia(Princeton University)
SARVIMÄKI Matti(Aalto University School of Business)
Welfare states, Migration and Selection: Heterogeneous effects of social and econimic rights on migrants flows
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 10/04/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ZHURAVSKAYA Ekaterina(PSE)
BECKER Maja(Université de Toulouse )
IRENA Grosfled(PSE)
NICO Voigtlaender(UCLA)
Forced Migration and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers
écrit avec Sascha O. Becker, Irena Grosfeld, and Nico Voigtlaender
We exploit a unique historical setting to study the long-run effects
of forced migration on investment in education. As a result of 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 Poles with a family history of forced migration are significantly
more educated today, while there were no pre-WWII differences in
education. This result holds when we restrict ancestral locations to a
subsample around the former Kresy border, and when including fixed
effects for the destination of migrants. The historical setting also
allows us to narrow the comparison to forced migrants vs. voluntary
migrants. The latter arrived from Central Poland, attracted by
government programs to settle the largely emptied Western Territories.
We find that -- even within municipalities -- descendants of forced
migrants are more educated than the descendants of voluntary migrants.
This difference is not driven by the selection of either group of
migrants or by pre-war differences. Instead, survey evidence suggests
that forced migration led to a shift in preferences, away from
material possessions and towards investment in mobile assets such as
human capital. The effects persist over three generations.