Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/286573 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association [ISSN:] 1869-4195 [Volume:] 14 [Issue:] 2 [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 143-164
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Child labor reform
Education
Internal migration
Spain
JEL: 
I20
J61
R23
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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