Migration and educational aspirations – Another channel of brain gain?

Böhme, Marcus

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“…Recently, Böhme (2015) has shown that international Moldovan migrants increase education aspirations at home, and Démurger and Xu (2015) have stressed the importance of education for migrant parents in China. On the other hand, the absence of parents in the household due to migration has been found to lead to reduced investment in children's education in a number of studies.…”

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Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural China

Démurger

Wang

2016

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural ChinaIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of remittances sent to rural households on consumption-type and investment-type expenditures. We apply propensity score matching to account for the selection of households into receiving remittances, and estimate average treatment effects on the treated. We find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment. Moreover, we find evidence of a strong negative impact on education expenditures, which could be detrimental to sustaining investment in human capital in poor rural areas in China.JEL Classification: O15, J22, R23, D13, O53

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Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural China

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Wang

2016

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“…Other reasons such as children's ability or the unavailability of secondary schools make up less than 20% of reported (main) constraints. Panel B shows that the likelihood of reporting barriers also decreases according to our 2SLS regression (see also Böhme 2015). Controlling for all the usual variables, we find that migration significantly decreases the likelihood of the main caregiver reporting barriers to the child's education by about 62 percentage points (average partial effect after an IV probit, see column 4).…”

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“…Although it is more costly and difficult to enter the EU labor market, the long-term remuneration is on average higher than for migration to Russia (MPC 2013;World Bank 2014). Böhme (2015) provides evidence that in Moldova migration is associated with higher educational aspirations at the bottom end of the educational distribution and does not affect educational aspirations negatively for any other part of the distribution.…”

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“…Table 4 reports the second stage results for the three categories of private education spending -payments to teachers, supplementary tutoring expenses, transportation ex-23 Both migrants and non-migrant families have high aspirations for their children as for example Böhme (2015) shows. If anything, this effect works against the mechanism we document in this paper.…”

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Can Parental Migration Reduce Petty Corruption in Education?

Höckel

Silva²,

Stöhr³

2017

The World Bank Economic Review

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“…When they return to rural areas, they have an incentive to devote more resources to their children's education (Lee and Park 2011). Böhme (2015) finds that a caregiver's change in educational aspiration can result in "brain gain" of their family members, especially for those located at the lower end of the human capital distribution.…”

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No longer left-behind: The impact of return migrant parents on children's performance

Liu

Xiaoxian

2018

China Economic Review

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Asian Development Bank InstituteThe Working Paper series is a continuation of the formerly named Discussion Paper series; the numbering of the papers continued without interruption or change. ADBI's working papers reflect initial ideas on a topic and are posted online for discussion. ADBI encourages readers to post their comments on the main page for each working paper (given in the citation below). Some working papers may develop into other forms of publication.ADB recognizes "China" as the People's Republic of China. The views expressed in this paper are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of ADBI, ADB, its Board of Directors, or the governments they represent. ADBI does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequences of their use. Terminology used may not necessarily be consistent with ADB official terms.Working papers are subject to formal revision and correction before they are finalized and considered published.Asian Development Bank Institute Kasumigaseki Building, 8th Floor 3-2-5 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-6008, Japan AbstractUsing data from a rural household survey for the People's Republic of China in 2009, we examine the impact of parental migration on children's educational outcomes. Consistent with the findings of a large empirical literature, we find that parental migration has a significantly negative impact on left-behind children's educational outcomes as measured by test scores in Chinese and mathematics. However, unlike many of the existing studies on the subject, we focus on the remediation effect of return migrant parents on once-left-behind children's performance. This empirical strategy allows us to avoid the endogeneity issue concerning the migration decision that may have contaminated previous studies. We find evidence that return migrant parents help alleviate the harm caused by parental migration. We explore two channels through which return migrant parents may improve children's school performance. One is that children spend more time studying following migrant parents' return. The other is that return migrant parents spend more on their children's education. We also find evidence suggesting that the remediation effect is stronger for children attending primary school and for daughters.

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Migration and educational aspirations – Another channel of brain gain?

Cited by 20 publications

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Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural China

Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural China

Can Parental Migration Reduce Petty Corruption in Education?

No longer left-behind: The impact of return migrant parents on children's performance

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