Were Jews in Interwar Poland More Educated?

Ran Abramitzky and Hanna Halaburda

No 26763, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non Jews, but show that this finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas, and people in cities were more educated than people in villages regardless of their religion. The case of interwar Poland illustrates that the Jewish relative education advantage depends on the historical and institutional contexts.

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Date: 2020-02
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Published as Ran ABRAMITZKY & Hanna HALABURDA, 2020. "Were Jews in Interwar Poland more Educated?," JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 86(3), pages 291-304, September.

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