Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain
Jorge González Chapela,
Sergi Jimenez-Martin and
Judit Vall Castello
SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2023, vol. 14, issue 2, No 1, 143-164
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Abstract We exploit a country-wide child labor regulation that eliminated the difference in school/work alternatives for children born at the beginning and the end of the year to identify the causal effect of education on migration at low levels of schooling. By not relying on changes to the school system, we are more confident that our results are not driven by unobserved changes in school quality evolving differentially across regions. The results of a difference-in-differences methodology combined with an exploration of maternal characteristics and a regression discontinuity design suggest that internal migration hardly changed after the reform. A consideration of the external validity of this finding is also provided.
Keywords: Internal migration; Education; Child labor reform; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/s13209-023-00272-4
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