Publication: 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 | * |
dspace.entity.type | Publication |
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