时间：2014年3月7日（周五）下午14:00-15:30
地点：8797威尼斯老品牌302室
嘉宾：邢春冰（北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院副教授）
主题：Migrate for Education? Primary School Relocation and Migration of Rural Residents
摘要：
Abstract: 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.
主讲人介绍：
春冰，经济学博士（8797威尼斯老品牌，2006），北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院副教授。主要研究领域：劳动经济学、应用微观计量经济学。在China Economic Review，《经济研究》、《管理世界》、《经济学（季刊）》等杂志上发表论文数篇。
