Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: Internal Migration and the Diffusion of Schooling in the US

摘要到19世纪末，美国实现了非常高的入学率。该项目使用了涵盖内战前后美国经济和社会生活的许多方面的新颖历史数据，考察了国内移民在教育传播中的作用。数据集中记录的信息包括征税财产的价值和筹集的税收金额；这些学校的公立和私立学校、教师和学生的数量；按收入来源划分的财务状况；印刷的图书馆和报纸的数量；以及支付给不同类型劳动力的现行工资。利用这些数据，该项目考虑了潜在的机制，以了解国内移徙如何影响当地的学校选择。该项目探索了来自受教育程度较高的州的移民如何影响当地人口的入学率。该项目基于这样一个概念，即入学人数的不平等可以通过选择居住在给定县的移民的来源来解释。因此，国内移民是美国学校传播的重要渠道。利用详细的历史数据，该项目考察了来自受教育程度较高的州的移民通过哪些具体渠道提高了当地人的教育成绩。该项目特别关注通过财产税为学校提供资金，以考虑来自公共系统正常运行的州的移民可以为目的地的学校提供更多公共资金。这一奖励反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

AbstractBy the late 19th century, the United States achieved very strong school enrollment rates. This project examines the role of internal migration in the spread of education, using novel historical data that covers many aspects of American economic and social life before and after the Civil War. The information recorded in the dataset includes the value of the taxed property and the amounts of tax revenue raised the number of public and private schools, teachers, and pupils in those schools; their finances by revenue source; the number of libraries and newspapers printed; and the prevailing wages paid to different kinds of labor. Utilizing this data, the project considers potential mechanisms to understand how internal migration affected local schooling choices. The project explores how migration from more educated states affect school enrollment rates for the local population. The project builds on the notion that inequality in school enrollments can be explained by the origins of migrants who chose to live in a given county. Accordingly, internal migration was an important channel in the spread of schools in the US. Using detailed historical data, the project examines specific channels through which migrants from more educated states improved the schooling outcomes of the locals. The project particularly focuses on the funding of schools through property taxes to consider that migrants from states with functioning public systems can be instrumental for more public funding for schools in their destinations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.