Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago. Booth School of Business
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Hornbeck, Richard. Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-06-19. https://doi.org/10.3886/E192264V1
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Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation
Abstract:
The 1930s American Dust Bowl created archetypal “Dust Bowl migrants,” refugees from environmental collapse. I examine this archetype, comparing migration from more-eroded and less-eroded counties to distinguish Dust Bowl migrants from other migrants. Dust Bowl migrants were “negatively selected,” in years of education, compared to other migrants who were “positively selected.” Dust Bowl migrants had lower incomes than natives in their destinations, which is reflected in popular impressions. I estimate strikingly modest impacts of the Dust Bowl on average wage incomes in 1939, however, which contrasts with the Dust Bowl’s large and enduring impacts on agricultural land.
Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation
Abstract:
The 1930s American Dust Bowl created archetypal “Dust Bowl migrants,” refugees from environmental collapse. I examine this archetype, comparing migration from more-eroded and less-eroded counties to distinguish Dust Bowl migrants from other migrants. Dust Bowl migrants were “negatively selected,” in years of education, compared to other migrants who were “positively selected.” Dust Bowl migrants had lower incomes than natives in their destinations, which is reflected in popular impressions. I estimate strikingly modest impacts of the Dust Bowl on average wage incomes in 1939, however, which contrasts with the Dust Bowl’s large and enduring impacts on agricultural land.
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United States
Time Period(s):
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1935 – 1940
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