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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Beine, Michel
• Noël, Romain
• Ragot, Lionel

Titel

Determinants of the international mobility of students

Ist Teil von

• Economics of education review, 2014-08, Vol.41 (August), p.40-54

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier India Pvt Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •We study the determinants of location choice of foreign students.•We analyze that issue in a multi-origin multi-destination framework.•We find evidence of a network effect for the migration of students.•We find that quality of education and costs of living at destination play a role.•The role of education fees is more ambiguous. This paper analyzes the determinants of the choice of location of international students. Building on the documented trends in international migration of students, we identify the various factors associated to the attraction of migrants as well as the costs of moving abroad. Using new data capturing the number of students from a large set of origin countries studying in a set of 13 OECD countries, we assess the importance of the various factors identified in the theory. We find support for a significant network effect in the migration of students, a result so far undocumented in the literature. We also find a significant role for cost factors such as housing prices and for attractiveness variables such as the reported quality of universities. In contrast, we do not find an important role for registration fees.