Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119831 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2014/13
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
We study the impact of international migration on enrollment of the left-behinds in Albania using the 2008 and 2012 Living Standard Measurement Survey. We employ a 2-s tage Probit model controlling for endogeneity with an instrumental-variable approach. We find that migration has a negative and significant impact on enrollment in both waves. This result holds across different sub-samples and alternative ways to proxy within-household migration. Our findings strengthen results for previous years and cast doubts on the effectiveness of recent educational reforms and migration-oriented policies in Albania.
Subjects: 
Migration
Left-behinds
Albania
Enrollment
Education
JEL: 
F22
O15
I25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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