The Determinants of International Mobility of Students

By Michel Beine, Romain Noël, L. Ragot. Social Science Research Network, 2012

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This paper analyzes the determinants of the choice of location of international students. Building on the documented trends in international migration of students, we develop a small theoretical model allowing to identify the various factors associated to the attraction of migrants as well as the costs of moving abroad. Using new data capturing the number of students from a large set of origin countries studying in a set of 13 OECD countries, we assess the importance of the various factors identified in the theory. We find support for a significant network effect in the migration of students, a result so far undocumented in the literature. We also find a significant role for cost factors such as housing prices and for attractiveness variables such as the reported quality of universities. In contrast, we do not find an important role for registration fees.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Determinants of International Student Migration (2016, positive): “This result is in line with previous results reported by Beine et al. (2014) who also found no significant effect between skill prices at destination and international student flows.”
A practitioners' guide to gravity models of international migration (2016, positive): “More elaborated indicators of linguistic proximity have been nevertheless used in gravity equations: Belot and Ederveen (2012) and Adsera and Pytlikova (2012) employ various measures of proximity, based either on family trees established by linguists or on measures of phonetic similarity between lan”