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DOI10.3386/w23122
来源IDWorking Paper 23122
Keepin' 'em Down on the Farm: Migration and Strategic Investment in Children's Schooling
Robert Jensen; Nolan H. Miller
发表日期2017-02-06
出版年2017
语种英语
摘要In rural areas of most developing countries, intergenerational coresidence is both widespread and an important determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on the family farm or provide care and assistance around the house). However, children themselves may prefer to migrate when they grow up, and parents cannot directly prevent them from doing so. We present a model where parents may strategically limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity, and will thus voluntarily choose to remain home. We provide evidence for the model’s predictions using an intervention that provided recruiting services for the business process outsourcing industry in randomly selected rural Indian villages. Because awareness of these high-paying, high education, urban jobs was limited at baseline, the intervention increased the attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate.
主题Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Development and Growth ; Development
URLhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w23122
来源智库National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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