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On the train to brain gain in rural China

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This study investigates the well-researched relationship between migration and the formation of human capital in the source region using a novel instrument: the existence of a local train station. We make use of Chinese panel data and of the fact that the decision to build a new train station is taken by the central government and unrelated to characteristics of a rural village receiving the station. As an intermediate result we find that train stations are negatively related to migration outflows, thus indicating that the facilitation of local employment through economic integration outweighs the reduction of migratory costs. Investigating variation within villages over time in the instrumental variables approach for the central research question, we see a positive effect of out-migration on educational attainment in the source region. Additional results suggest that the effect is stronger for male and young stayers.

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; No. 230

Classification: Wirtschaft
Household Behavior: General
Education and Economic Development
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

Subject: migration
human capital formation
instrumental variables
China
China

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Zhang, Yi
Matz, Anna

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)

(where): Bonn

(when): 2017

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/162184

Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET

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Zhang, Yi
Matz, Anna
University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)

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2017

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