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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gevrek, Z. Eylem
• Kunt, Pinar
• Ursprung, Heinrich W.

Titel

Education, political discontent, and emigration intentions: evidence from a natural experiment in Turkey

Ist Teil von

• Public choice, 2021-03, Vol.186 (3-4), p.563-585

Ort / Verlag

New York: Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We exploit the 1997 school reform that prolonged compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years to investigate the causal effect of education on emigration intentions. Our IV estimates indicate that an additional year of schooling increases the probability of reporting the intention to emigrate by 24% points. Moreover, we provide evidence that the identified effect of education on emigration intentions does not operate through financial dissatisfaction, but rather through displeasure at a bleak political environment that better educated people are more keenly aware of.