TY - JOUR
T1 - Sixty years after the magic carpet ride
T2 - The long-run effect of the early childhood environment on social and economic outcomes
AU - Gould, Eric D.
AU - Lavy, Victor
AU - Paserman, M. Daniele
N1 - Funding Information: Acknowledgement. We thank Yossef Bashara of Taldor for coordinating and managing the Yemenite survey. Yaron Aronshtam, Shahaf Cohen, Dorit Hofnung, and Roy Mill provided able research assistance. We benefited from helpful comments by the editor, Imran Rasul, three anonymous referees, and participants at the NBER Labor Studies and Cohort Studies Spring 2008 conferences, NBER Summer Institute Children’s Workshop in 2008, the Centre for Market and Public Organisation Bristol 2008 conference, the Society of Labor Economists 2009 Annual Meetings, the Econometric Society 2009 North American Summer Meeting, and seminars at Aarhus, Bar Ilan University, Cornell University, Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica—Barcelona, London School of Economics, and Hebrew University. This research was supported by Israel Science Foundation Grant No. 1309/04 and by the Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research.
PY - 2011/7/1
Y1 - 2011/7/1
N2 - This paper estimates the effect of the early childhood environment on a large array of social and economic outcomes lasting almost 60 years. To do this, we exploit variation in the living conditions experienced by Yemenite children after being airlifted to Israel in 1949. We find that children who were placed in a more modern environment (i.e. with better sanitary and infrastructure conditions) were more likely to obtain higher education, marry at an older age, have fewer children, and work at age 55. They were also more likely to be assimilated into Israeli society, to be less religious, and have more worldly tastes in music and food. However, these effects are found mainly for women and not for men. We also find an effect on the next generation-children who lived in a better environment grew up to have children with more education.
AB - This paper estimates the effect of the early childhood environment on a large array of social and economic outcomes lasting almost 60 years. To do this, we exploit variation in the living conditions experienced by Yemenite children after being airlifted to Israel in 1949. We find that children who were placed in a more modern environment (i.e. with better sanitary and infrastructure conditions) were more likely to obtain higher education, marry at an older age, have fewer children, and work at age 55. They were also more likely to be assimilated into Israeli society, to be less religious, and have more worldly tastes in music and food. However, these effects are found mainly for women and not for men. We also find an effect on the next generation-children who lived in a better environment grew up to have children with more education.
KW - Childhood environment
KW - Neighbourhood effects
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U2 - 10.1093/restud/rdq038
DO - 10.1093/restud/rdq038
M3 - مقالة
SN - 0034-6527
VL - 78
SP - 938
EP - 973
JO - Review of Economic Studies
JF - Review of Economic Studies
IS - 3
ER -