Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272606 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15979
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South to North. Many counties that had the strongest positive impacts on children during the 1940s offer relatively poor opportunities for Black youth today. Opportunities for Black children were greater in places with more schooling investment, stronger labor market opportunities for Black adults, more social capital, and less crime.
Subjects: 
Great Migration
human capital
education
place effect
JEL: 
N32
J15
J24
H75
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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