Human Capital Persistence and Development
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 9,
no. 4, October 2017
(pp. 105-36)
(Complimentary)
Abstract
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.Citation
Rocha, Rudi, Claudio Ferraz, and Rodrigo R. Soares. 2017. "Human Capital Persistence and Development." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 9 (4): 105-36. DOI: 10.1257/app.20150532Additional Materials
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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