TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Baran, Cavit
AU  - Chyn, Eric
AU  - Stuart, Bryan Andrew
        TI  - The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity
        PY  - 2023/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15979
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15979
        AB  - 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. 

        KW  - education
KW  - human capital
KW  - Great Migration
KW  - place effect
        ER  -