Replication data for: Human Capital Persistence and Development

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Project Citation:

Rocha, Rudi, Ferraz, Claudio, and Soares, Rodrigo R. Replication data for: Human Capital Persistence and Development. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113670V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper documents the persistence of human capital over time and its association with long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. We show that one century after the policy, municipalities that received settlements had higher levels of schooling and higher income per capita. We provide evidence that long-run effects worked through higher supply of educational inputs and shifts in the structure of occupations toward skill-intensive sectors.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      I26 Returns to Education
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
      N36 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Latin America; Caribbean
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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V1 [2019-10-12]

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