Does more schooling make you run for the border? Post - independence evidence from Kosovo

Artjoms Ivļevs, Roswitha M. King

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Abstract

Does an extra year of schooling augment one's propensity to migrate? In a naive regression, which does not account for the potential reverse causality and omitted variables, the coefficient of education is likely to be biased. To deal with the problems of endogeneity, we use parental education as an instrument for own education. The data come from a survey on preparedness to emigrate from Kosovo, carried out in the summer of 2008. Two-stage residual inclusion multinomial probit results suggest that an extra year of education increases the probability of taking concrete steps to realise migration intentions by up to 9 percentage points.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1108-1120
JournalJournal of Development Studies
Volume48
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

Field of Science*

  • 5.6 Political science

Publication Type*

  • 1.3. Anonymously reviewed scientific article published in a journal with an international editorial board and is available in another indexed database

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