Taryn Dinkelman|Martine Mariotti
The Long-Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of Origin
National Bureau of Economic Research|Dartmouth College|Australian National University
provide new evidence one channel circular labor migration longrun effects origin communities raising completed human capital next generation estimate net effects migration malawi south african mines using newly digitized census administrative data access mine jobs differenceindifferences strategy two oppositesigned plausibly exogenous shocks option migrate twenty years shocks human capital 4869 percent higher among cohorts eligible schooling communities easiest access migrant jobs jel f22 j24 j61 l72 o13 o15