Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain

González Chapela, Jorge ; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi ; Vall Castello, Judit

Resumen: 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.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1007/s13209-023-00272-4

Año: 2023

Publicado en: SERIES-JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION 14, 2 (2023), 143-164
ISSN: 1869-4187

Factor impacto JCR: 1.7 (2023)

Categ. JCR: ECONOMICS rank: 256 / 600 = 0.427 (2023) - Q2 - T2

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 2.3 - Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (Q2)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.728 - Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S32-20R

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)