Klein, Alexander (2009) Did children’s education matter? : family migration as a mechanism of human capital investment : evidence from nineteenth century Bohemia. Working Paper. Department of Economics, University of Warwick: University of Warwick. (The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), Vol.2009).

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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.

Item Type:	Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DB Austria
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Pilsen (Czech Republic) -- History -- 19th century, Rural-urban migration -- Czech Republic -- Pilsen, Apprentices -- Czech Republic -- Pilsen -- History -- 19th century, Education -- Czech Republic -- Pilsen -- History -- 19th century
Series Name:	The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS)
Publisher:	University of Warwick
Place of Publication:	Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Date:	2009
Volume:	Vol.2009
Number:	No.923
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
Funder:	European Commission (EC)
Grant number:	MRTN-CT-2004-512439 (EC)
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URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/3538

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