Publication: Do you have to be tall and educated to be a migrant? Evidence from Spanish recruitment records, 1890-1950
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2019-08-01
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We use Spanish military records stemming from the late-19th to the mid-20th century to assess internal migrants' self-selection. We find that migrants were, on average over the whole period, around one centimeter taller than non-migrants, and in the booming 1920s, the height advantage of movers reached three centimeters. The positive self-selection was larger for migrants originating in poorer provinces and traveling longer distances. A further finding is that migrants were positively selected in terms of literacy and socio-economic status according to their occupation. Professionals were most likely to have migrated internally and farmers least.
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Early industrialization, Human stature, Internal migration, Migrant self-selection, Spain
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Juif, D., & Quiroga, G. (2019). Do you have to be tall and educated to be a migrant? Evidence from Spanish recruitment records, 1890–1950. Economics & Human Biology, 34, pp. 115-124.