Were Jews in Interwar Poland More Educated? / Ran Abramitzky, Hanna Halaburda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abramitzky, Ran.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Halaburda, Hanna.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26763.

NBER working paper series no. w26763

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.

Summary:

In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non Jews, but show that this finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas, and people in cities were more educated than people in villages regardless of their religion. The case of interwar Poland illustrates that the Jewish relative education advantage depends on the historical and institutional contexts.

Notes:

Print version record

February 2020.