Long-run Impacts of Forced Labor Migration on Fertility Behaviors: Evidence from Colonial West Africa Pascaline Dupas, Camille Falezan, Marie Christelle Mabeu, and Pauline Rossi Abstract Is the persistently high fertility in West Africa today rooted in the decades of forced labor migration under colonial rule? We study the case of Burkina Faso, considered the […]
BREAD Working Paper No. 524, March 2019
Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building Samuel Bazzi, Arya Gaduh, Alexander D. Rothenberg, Maisy Wong Abstract We use a population resettlement program in Indonesia to identify long-run effects of intergroup contact on national integration. In the 1980s, the government relocated two million ethnically diverse migrants into hundreds of new communities. We […]