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11.5首都教育经济研究院：Lunch Seminar
发布时间：2014-11-03
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题 目：Migrate for Education? Primary School Relocation and Migration of Rural Residents
为教育而迁移的原因？撤点并校还是农村户籍人口的迁移
时 间：2014年11月5日12:30-14:00
地 点：科技楼C区310
讲座摘要：
The number of primary schools in rural China decreased dramatically in the last two decades, and after the central government issued a decision aiming to optimize the educational resources in 2001, an increasing number of small village schools were merged into the large scaled ones that located in more populous regions. This paper studies the impact of the relocation of primary schools on the migration decisions of rural residents. First, using two nationally representative micro datasets, we find that the decline in the number of primary schools per capita between 2000 and 2004 increased the probability of migration for rural residents in 2005. This result may suffers from endogeneity problem as the decrease in the number of rural primary schools is greatly influenced by the out-migration of rural residents. To alleviate this concern, we control for a rich set of variables, including those reflecting the region specific trend of migration. By exploring the heterogeneous effects, we find that the migration of households with primary-school-age children are more sensitive to the relocation of primary schools, and that the effect is stronger for families with boys than those with girls. Second, using a longitudinal household survey that contains information on community characteristics, we find that both the disappearance of village primary school and the increased distance to nearby primary school increased the migration probability of village residents. Finally, we find a discontinuous drop in primary school enrollment rate between 2001 and 2002, a time when the number of rural primary schools dropped sharply. All these results suggest that human capital investment motive and regional education policy play an important role in China's urbanization process.
演讲人简介：
邢春冰，男，北京师范大学经管学院教授、经济系主任。2006年获北京大学经济学博士，加拿大西安大略大学博士后。主要讲授课程包括：高级计量经济学、中级微观经济学。在International Labour Review、China Economic Review等国际期刊上发表30余篇学术论文。