Data and Code for: Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Sascha Becker; Irena Grosfeld, Paris School of Economics; Pauline Grosjean, UNSW; Nico Voigtländer, UCLA Anderson School of Management; Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics

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Project Description

Summary: We study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education. After World War II, millions of Poles were forcibly uprooted from the Kresy territories of eastern Poland and resettled (primarily) in the newly acquired Western Territories, from which the Germans were expelled. We combine historical censuses with newly collected survey data to show that, while there were no pre-WWII differences in educational attainment, Poles with a family history of forced migration are significantly more educated today than other Poles. These results are driven by a shift in preferences away from material possessions toward investment in human capital.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Poland; Forced Migration ; Uprootedness; Human Capital

JEL Classification:
      D74 Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
      I25 Education and Economic Development
      N33 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
      N34 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: 1913-

Geographic Coverage: Poland

Data Type(s): census/enumeration data; survey data

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