Do you have to be tall and educated to be a migrant? Evidence from Spanish recruitment records, 1890-1950

Juif, Dacil Tania; Quiroga Valle, Maria Gloria

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Do you have to be tall and educated to be a migrant? Evidence from Spanish recruitment records, 1890-1950

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales	es
dc.affiliation.grupoinv	UC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Historias de los Capitalismos Latinos Globales (H-GLACIAL)	es
dc.contributor.author	Juif, Dacil Tania
dc.contributor.author	Quiroga Valle, Maria Gloria
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-29T18:22:13Z
dc.date.available	2022-11-29T18:22:13Z
dc.date.issued	2019-08-01
dc.description.abstract	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.	en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	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.	en
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2018.12.006
dc.identifier.issn	1570-677X
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage	115	es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage	124	es
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Economics & Human Biology	en
dc.identifier.publicationvolume	34	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/36129
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000024757
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.publisher	Elsevier	es
dc.rights	© 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved	es
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.other	Early industrialization	en
dc.subject.other	Human stature	en
dc.subject.other	Internal migration	en
dc.subject.other	Migrant self-selection	en
dc.subject.other	Spain	en
dc.title	Do you have to be tall and educated to be a migrant? Evidence from Spanish recruitment records, 1890-1950	en
dc.type	research article	*
dc.type.hasVersion	AM	*
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