El Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chile tiene el agrado de invitar a usted a un nuevo Seminario Académico:

Título - Migration, Population Composition and Long-Run Economic Development: Evidence from Settlements in the Pampas

Autor - Federico Droller (Universidad de Santiago de Chile)

Presenta - Federico Droller (Universidad de Santiago de Chile)

Abstract - This paper analyzes the impact of population composition on long-runeconomic development by studying the European migration to Argentina in the late nineteenth century. I use an instrumental variables approach that assigns immigrants across counties by interacting two sources of exogenous variation: the availability of land for settlement and the arrival of Europeans over time. Results show that population composition caused differences in current economic outcomes. Areas with historically higher shares of European population currently have higher per-capita GDP. Moreover, the effect is linked to the process of industrialization and the level of human capital. 

El Seminario se realizará el miércoles 02 de abril de 13:00 a 14:00 hrs, en la Sala P-301 Tercer Piso del edificio Placa de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile, ubicada en Diagonal Paraguay 257.