Data and Code for: Moved to Poverty? A Legacy of the Apartheid Experiment in South Africa

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Bladimir Carrillo, Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV; Carlos Charris, Catholic University of Brasilia; Wilman Iglesias, Vocational Economics, Inc

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Project Citation:

Carrillo, Bladimir, Charris, Carlos, and Iglesias, Wilman. Data and Code for: Moved to Poverty? A Legacy of the Apartheid Experiment in South Africa. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-12-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E175921V1

Project Description

Summary: During the South African apartheid, Black people were forced to move to homelands during the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in one of history’s largest segregation policy experiments. We examine how and why relocation to the homelands affected human capital attainment. Exploiting the staggered timing of homeland establishment in a cross-cohort identification strategy, we find that moving to the homelands during childhood significantly reduces educational attainment, labor earnings and employment rates in adulthood. The data suggest an important role for place effects. Moving to the homelands in childhood implies greater exposure to poorer neighborhoods and it disproportionally reduces human capital attainment.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Apartheid; segregation; human capital; homelands

JEL Classification:
      E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      N37 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Africa; Oceania
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

Geographic Coverage: South Africa

Time Period(s): 1980 – 1996

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation: Individuals

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