Displacement and development: Long term impacts of population transfer in India

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Forced Displacement in History: Some Recent Research

“…16 A third prominent case is the Partition of India in 1947 which triggered massive population exchanges between India and Pakistan. Focusing on the agricultural sector, Bharadwaj and Mirza (2019) demonstrate that areas in India that received more refugees have (1) higher average yields, (2) are more likely to take up high-yielding varieties of seeds, and (3) are more likely to use agricultural technologies. These effects are not explained by selective movement into districts with a higher potential for agricultural development.…”

Forced displacement in history: Some recent research

“…A third prominent case is the Partition of India in 1947 which triggered massive population exchanges between India and Pakistan. Focusing on the agricultural sector, Bharadwaj and Mirza (2019) demonstrate that areas in India that received more refugees have (1) higher average yields, (2) are more likely to take up high‐yielding varieties of seeds, and (3) are more likely to use agricultural technologies. These effects are not explained by selective movement into districts with a higher potential for agricultural development.…”

Human capital transfers and sub-national development: Armenian and Greek legacy in post-expulsion Turkey

“…Thus, our first novel contribution is to demonstrate that the positive historical legacy of high-skilled groups can trump any negative effect these regions might have experienced. Related literature highlights the effects of expulsions and persecutions on social structure, labor market outcomes and education (Acemoglu et al, 2011;Becker et al, 2020;Testa, 2021;Bharadwaj et al, 2015), agricultural productivity (Bazzi et al, 2016;Bharadwaj & Mirza, 2019), population dynamics (Chaney & Hornbeck, 2016), firm performance (Huber et al, 2021), financial development (Pascali, 2016), and scientific productivity (Waldinger, 2012(Waldinger, , 2016Akbulut-Yuksel & Yuksel, 2015). We depart from this literature as we are not concerned with isolating the effects of expulsions per se.…”