Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232765 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14013
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We take advantage of a major compulsory school reform in Turkey to provide novel evidence on the causal effect of education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for the first time in literature, we provide causal effects of education on migration by reason for migration. We find that while education substantially increases the incidence of migration among men, there is no evidence of an effect among women. Women, however, become more likely to migrate at earlier ages and their migration reasons change. Revealing the empowering role of education, women become more likely to move for human capital investments and for employment purposes and less likely to be tied-movers.
Subjects: 
education
internal migration
incidence and timing of migration
reason for migration
2SLS
regression discontinuity design
JEL: 
J61
I2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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