Immigration and The Short- and Long-Term Impact of Improved Prenatal Conditions

Victor Lavy, Analia Schlosser and Adi Shany

The Economic Journal, 2024, vol. 134, issue 662, 2494-2529

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of immigration from a developing country to a developed country during pregnancy on offspring outcomes. We focus on intermediate- and long-term outcomes, using quasi-experimental variation created by the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in May 1991. Individuals conceived before immigration experienced dramatic changes in their environmental conditions at different stages of prenatal development depending on their gestational age at migration. We find that females whose mothers immigrated at an earlier gestational age have better educational outcomes. They also tend to work more as adults. In contrast, we do not find any effect among males.

Date: 2024
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