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  • Human Capital Development
  • Intergenerational Mobility

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  • Parental wealth is theorized to influence investments in children's human capital.
  • Historical events offering exogenous wealth shocks provide unique opportunities to study this relationship.
  • The Cherokee Land Lottery of 1832 provides such a natural experiment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether substantial, randomly allocated wealth to parents impacts their descendants' human capital.
  • To assess the long-term effects of financial windfalls on intergenerational outcomes.
  • To identify factors influencing human capital formation beyond parental wealth.

Main Methods:

  • A fifty-year follow-up study tracking descendants of lottery participants.
  • Utilizing the random allocation of wealth from the 1832 Georgia Cherokee Land Lottery as a natural experiment.
  • Comparing human capital indicators (education, literacy, adult outcomes) between descendants of winners and non-winners.

Main Results:

  • Lottery winners received significant wealth, comparable to the median.
  • Winners did not increase schooling for their children.
  • Sons of winners showed no improved adult outcomes (wealth, income, literacy) compared to non-winners' sons.
  • Grandchildren of winners did not exhibit higher literacy or school attendance.

Conclusions:

  • Family financial resources appear to play a limited role in human capital formation across generations in this historical context.
  • Other persistent family-related factors may be more influential in shaping intergenerational human capital.
  • Exogenous wealth shocks may not translate into significant, lasting improvements in descendant human capital.