Murtin, Fabrice and Viarengo, Martina (2009) American education in the age of mass migrations 1870-1930. IZA discussion papers. Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany.
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This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of migrants by country and the age pyramids of migrants by country. Then we use original data on educational attainment in the nineteenth century presented in Morrisson and Murtin (2008) in order to estimate the educational level of US immigrants by age and by country. As a result, our series are consistent with the first national estimates of average schooling in 1940. We show that mass migrations have had a significant but modest impact on the US average educational attainment. However, the educational gap between US natives and immigrants was large and increased with the second immigration wave, a phenomenon that most likely fostered the implementation of restrictive immigration rules in the 1920s.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/pape... |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | L Education > LA History of education H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration E History America > E151 United States (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Mar 2009 12:44 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 20:10 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/23306 |
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