Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216516 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8120
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non-Jews, but show that this finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas, and people in cities were more educated than people in villages regardless of their religion. The case of interwar Poland illustrates that the Jewish relative education advantage depends on the historical and institutional contexts.
Subjects: 
education
illiteracy
Jewish minority
Poland
JEL: 
N34
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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