Can migration reduce educational attainment? Evidence from Mexico

By David J. McKenzie, Hillel Rapoport. 2006

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This paper examines the impact of migration on educational attainment in rural Mexico. Using historical migration rates to instrument for current migration, we find evidence of a significant negative effect of migration on schooling attendance and attainment. IV-censored ordered probits show that living in a migrant household lowers the chances of boys completing junior high school and of boys and girls completing high school. We find that the observed decrease in schooling of 16- to 18-year-olds is accounted for by current migration of boys and increased housework for girls.

Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Brain drain or brain bank? The impact of skilled emigration on poor-country innovation (2008, background): “While Yang (2006) presents evidence from the Philippines where the former effect dominates, in Mexico’s case the second factor appears to dominate (McKenzie and Rapoport, 2006).”
Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico (2012, background): “if they are to migrate themselves in the future, or by the fact that migration may disrupt family life and, thus, have negative effects on school attendance (Kandel and Kao, 2001; McKenzie and Rapoport, 2010; McKenzie and Sasin, 2007).”
Seasonal Migration and Early Childhood Development (2010, background): “1 McKenzie and Rapoport (2006), Hanson and Woodruff (2003) have pointed out however that migration might also work as a disincentive for teenagers to finish higher levels of education.”
The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind (2012, background): “…migration on the left behind, the most popular appear to be historical migration rates (Hanson and Woodruff, 2003; Hildebrandt and McKenzie, 2005; McKenzie and Rapoport, 2011) and variables linked to economic conditions in destination areas (AmuedoDorantes and Pozo, 2010; Amuedo-Dorantes et al.,…”
Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the 'Left Behind' Generation in Albania (2010, positive): “McKenzie and Rapoport (2006) examining the impact of migration on educational attainment in rural Mexico, found that living in a migrant household lowers the chances of children completing high school.”
Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries : winners and losers (2008, background): “See McKenzie and Rapoport (2006) for Mexico and De Brauw and Giles (2006) for rural–urban migration in China.”
The Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Human Capital: Evidence from Latin American Household Surveys (2007, background): “As mentioned at the beginning of the section, previous evidence on Mexico has suggested that the positive effects of remittances on schooling vary with the educational attainment of the children’s’ parents (Hanson and Woodruff, 2003; McKenzie and Rapoport, 2006), being generally larger when the latt”