Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers

We study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education. After World War II, millions of Poles were forcibly uprooted from the Kresy territories of eastern Poland and resettled (primarily) in the newly acquired Western Territories, from which the Germans were expelled. We combin...

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Published in:The American economic review 2020-05, Vol.110 (5), p.1430-1463
Main Authors: Becker, Sascha O., Grosfeld, Irena, Grosjean, Pauline, Voigtländer, Nico, Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina
Format: Article
Language:English
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Economics and Finance
Humanities and Social Sciences
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