Migration as a channel of persistence of the effects of Peru?s mining mita: what surnames may reveal

Miguel Carpio and María Guerrero Barreto

No 2016-1, Working Papers from Lima School of Economics

Abstract: This paper proposes three indicators constructed from the surnames of the current population to analyze the effect of mita, a forced mining labor system in Peru and Bolivia during 1573 and 1812, on historical migration. The underlying assumption is that surnames within a community might be the same over time unless migration or mortality displacement takes place. The mita case is particularly appealing for applying our indicators because the use of surnames was introduced in the study region only since the Spanish conquest in 1532. We estimate the effect of mita by using a regression discontinuity design similar to the one conducted by Dell (2010), which exploits the exogenous variation in its geographic assignment.

Keywords: Forced labor; migration; surnames (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J47 N36 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06
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