Replication data for: The Long-Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of Origin

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Taryn Dinkelman; Martine Mariotti

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Project Citation: 

Dinkelman, Taryn, and Mariotti, Martine. Replication data for: The Long-Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of Origin. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113660V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We provide new evidence of one channel through which circular labor migration has long-run effects on origin communities: by raising completed human capital of the next generation. We estimate the net effects of migration from Malawi to South African mines using newly digitized census and administrative data on access to mine jobs, a difference-in-differences strategy, and two opposite-signed and plausibly exogenous shocks to the option to migrate. Twenty years after these shocks, human capital is 4.8-6.9 percent higher among cohorts who were eligible for schooling in communities with the easiest access to migrant jobs.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms education; international migration
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      F22 International Migration
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
      L72 Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Other Nonrenewable Resources
      O13 Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Africa, Malawi
Universe:  View help for Universe All districts in Malawi.
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) survey data; administrative records data; census/enumeration data

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source Census micro data are from IPUMSI. Census aggregate data, agricultural census data, and remittance data were digitised from paper records. Paper records collected from Malawian National Archives, WNLA (mining) archives in South Africa, and libraries at Oxford University and Harvard.
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation cohort-district-year, district-year

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