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Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
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…
Descriptors: African American Children, African American History, Migrants, Migrant Children
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2022
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…
Descriptors: Migration, Educational Opportunities, African Americans, Children