Did Children’s Education Matter? Family Migration as a Mechanism of Human Capital Investment. Evidence From Nineteenth Century Bohemia

Alexander Klein

No 271185, Economic Research Papers from University of Warwick - Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper analyzes the rural-urban migration of families in the Bohemian region of Pilsen in 1900. Using a new 1300-family dataset from the 1900 population census I examine the role of children‘s education in rural-urban migration. I find that families migrated to the city such that the educational attainment of their children would be maximized and that there is a positive correlation between family migration and children being apprentices in urban areas. The results suggest that rural-urban migration was powered not only by the exploitation of rural-urban wage gaps but also by aspirations to engage in human capital investment.

Keywords: Financial; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.271185

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