The long-run educational cost of World War II

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ichino, A; Winter-Ebmer, R
• 署名单位: Universite de Bretagne Occidentale; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Johannes Kepler University Linz; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/380403
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 57-86
• 关键词: identification; intelligence; earnings; school

摘要

An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital suffered by school-age children who receive less education. Austrian and German individuals who were 10 years old during the conflict, or were more directly involved through their parents, received less education than comparable individuals from nonwar countries, such as Switzerland and Sweden. We also show that these individuals experienced a sizable earnings loss some 40 years after the war, which can be attributed to the educational loss caused by the conflict. The implied consequences in terms of gross domestic product loss are calculated.