Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/268423 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
QUCEH Working Paper Series No. 23-02
Publisher: 
Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH), Belfast
Abstract: 
New hand-collected school administrative data from 1870s Virginia, alongside linked individual US Censusrecords, reveals that temporary school closures had lasting effects on literacy and income in adulthood. Those affected by the closures had lower intergenerational economic mobility, particularly those from low-income backgrounds. The age at which the closures occurred also played a role with younger cohorts more affected by early developmental disruptions and older cohorts more affected by prolonged closures.
Subjects: 
returns to education
school closures
literacy
economic mobility
wage inequality
JEL: 
H75
I21
I24
I26
I28
J62
N31
N91
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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