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Title: Internal Migration, Education, and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from American History

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2020

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ISSN: 0022-166X

DOI: 10.3368/JHR.58.2.0619-10265R2

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Abstract: To what extent does internal migration lead to upward mobility? Using within-brother variation and a new linked dataset from 1910 to 1940, I estimate that internal migrants were more likely to improve on their father’s percentile rank than non-migrants. On average, the effect of migration was nearly four times the effect of one year of education; for those raised in poorer households, migration’s effect was about nine times that of education. The evidence suggests that internal migration was a key strategy for intergenerational progress in a context of rapid industrialization, high rates of rural-to-urban migration and large interregional income gaps.

Url: https://ideas.repec.org/p/auu/hpaper/076.html

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Authors: Ward, Zachary

Series Title: Discussion Paper Series

Publication Number: 2019-04

Institution: The Australian National University - Centre for Economic History

Pages: 1-62

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS USA - Ancestry Full Count Data

Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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