Gould, Eric D.; Lavy, Victor Chaim; Paserman, M. Daniele - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper estimates the effect of the childhood environment on a large array of social and economic outcomes lasting almost 60 years, for both the affected cohorts and for their children. To do this, we exploit a natural experiment provided by the 1949 Magic Carpet operation, where over 50,000...