Human capital persistence and development

Resumo

This paper documents the persistence of human capital over time and its association with long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. We show that one century after the policy, municipalities that received settlements had higher levels of schooling and higher income per capita. We provide evidence that long-run effects worked through higher supply of educational inputs and shifts in the structure of occupations toward skill-intensive sectors.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2017

Instituição

Amer Economic Assoc

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso aberto

DOI

10.1257/app.20150532

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/23803

Temas

EconomiaDesenvolvimento Econômico

Palavras-chave

Economic developmentCross sectionProductivityHuman capitalEconomiaCapital humano