Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain

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, w...

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Autores: González Chapela, Jorge, Jiménez-Martín, Sergi, Vall-Castelló, Judit
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Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Palavra-chave:Internal migration
Education
Child labor reform
Spain
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spelling Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in SpainGonzález Chapela, JorgeJiménez-Martín, SergiVall-Castelló, JuditInternal migrationEducationChild labor reformSpainWe 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.Jorge González Chapela acknowledges financial support from the Government of Aragón, grant S32-20R. Sergi Jiménez-Martín acknowledges financial support from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, proyecto PID2020-114231RB-100. Judit Vall Castello acknowledges financial support from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, proyecto PID2021-126652NB-I00.Springer202320232023info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/56526http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13209-023-00272-4reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésSERIEs. 2023;14:143-64.https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1007%2Fs13209-023-00272-4/MediaObjects/13209_2023_272_MOESM1_ESM.docxinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2020-114231RB-100info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PE/PID2021-126652NB-I00© The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/565262026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain
spellingShingle Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain
González Chapela, Jorge
Internal migration
Education
Child labor reform
Spain
title_short Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain
title_full Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain
title_fullStr Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain
title_full_unstemmed Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain
title_sort Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv González Chapela, Jorge
Jiménez-Martín, Sergi
Vall-Castelló, Judit
author González Chapela, Jorge
author_facet González Chapela, Jorge
Jiménez-Martín, Sergi
Vall-Castelló, Judit
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Vall-Castelló, Judit
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Internal migration
Education
Child labor reform
Spain
topic Internal migration
Education
Child labor reform
Spain
description 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.
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