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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity / Cavit Baran, Eric Chyn, Bryan A. Stuart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baran, Cavit.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31012.
- NBER working paper series no. w31012
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.
- Summary:
- This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South to North. Many counties that had the strongest positive impacts on children during the 1940s offer relatively poor opportunities for Black youth today. Opportunities for Black children were greater in places with more schooling investment, stronger labor market opportunities for Black adults, more social capital, and less crime.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2023.
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