講座題目：Migrate forEducation? Primary School Relocation and Migration of Rural Residents 

主講人： 邢春冰 

講座時間：2014年10月30日下午3:00-4:30 

講座地點：學術會堂602 

主講人簡介： 

邢春冰，2006年畢業于北京大學，現為北京師範大學經濟與工商管理學院教授，博士生導師，加拿大西安大略大學經濟系博士後和訪問學者，德國IZA研究員。主要研究領域為人力資本、移民和收入分配，相關研究成果發表在IZAJournal of Labor and Development、Journal of Banking& Finance、China Economic Review、《經濟研究》、《經濟學季刊》和《金融研究》等國内外權威學術刊物，2004年以來已發表中英文論文30餘篇。課題方面，邢春冰教授曾主持國家自然科學基金、教育部人文社會科學基金以及IDRC/CIGI研究項目。  

内容簡介: 

Thenumber of primary schools in rural China decreased dramatically in the last twodecades, and after the central government issued a decision aiming to optimizethe educational resources in 2001, an increasing number of small villageschools were merged into the large scaled ones that located in more populousregions. This paper studies the impact of the relocation of primary schools onthe migration decisions of rural residents. First, using two nationallyrepresentative micro datasets, we find that the decline in the number ofprimary schools per capita between 2000 and 2004 increased the probability ofmigration for rural residents in 2005. This result may suffers from endogeneityproblem as the decrease in the number of rural primary schools is greatlyinfluenced by the out-migration of rural residents. To alleviate this concern,we control for a rich set of variables, including those reflecting the regionspecific trend of migration. By exploring the heterogeneous effects, we findthat the migration of households with primary-school-age children are moresensitive to the relocation of primary schools, and that the effect is strongerfor families with boys than those with girls. Second, using a longitudinalhousehold survey that contains information on community characteristics, wefind that both the disappearance of village primary school and the increaseddistance to nearby primary school increased the migration probability ofvillage residents. Finally, we find a discontinuous drop in primary school enrollmentrate between 2001 and 2002, a time when the number of rural primary schoolsdropped sharply. All these results suggest that human capital investment motiveand regional education policy play an important role in China's urbanizationprocess. 

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