Moved to Poverty? A Legacy of the Apartheid Experiment in South Africa

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Carrillo, Bladimir; Charris, Carlos; Iglesias, Wilman
• 署名单位: Getulio Vargas Foundation; Universidade Catolica de Brasilia
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20210439
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 183-221
• 关键词: labor-market consequences; abolishing user fees; family-size; relocation; HEALTH; household; migration; AGE

摘要

During the South African apartheid, Black people were forced to move to homelands during the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in one of history's largest segregation policy experiments. We examine how and why relocation to the homelands affected human capital attain-ment. Exploiting the staggered timing of homeland establishment in a cross-cohort identification strategy, we find that moving to the home-lands during childhood significantly reduces educational attainment, labor earnings, and employment rates in adulthood. The data sug-gest an important role for place effects. Moving to the homelands in childhood implies greater exposure to poorer neighborhoods, and it disproportionally reduces human capital attainment.