Murtin, Fabrice and Viarengo, Martina (2010) American education in the age of mass migrations, 1870-1930. Cliometrica, 4 (2). pp. 113-139. ISSN 1863-2505
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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 (J Human Cap, in press) 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: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.springerlink.com/content/120412/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 Springer-Verlag |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | L Education > LA History of education |
| JEL classification: | I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education N - Economic History > N7 - Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services > N70 - General, International, or Comparative J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination and Creation; Human Capital; Retirement > J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2009 12:18 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:38 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/25343 |
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