The Great Migration and educational opportunity

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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 the 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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Upjohn Institute Working Paper ; No. 22-367

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913- ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
• Subject: Great Migration ; human capital ; education ; place effect

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Baran, Cavit ; Chyn, Eric ; Stuart, Bryan A.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
• (where): Kalamazoo, MI
• (when): 2022

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.17848/wp22-367
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/262395
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET