Juif, Dacil TaniaQuiroga Valle, Maria Gloria2022-11-292022-11-292019-08-01Juif, 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. 115-124.1570-677Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/36129We 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.eng© 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reservedAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 EspañaEarly industrializationHuman statureInternal migrationMigrant self-selectionSpainresearch articlehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2018.12.006open access115124Economics & Human Biology34AR/0000024757