讲座题目：Migrate forEducation? Primary School Relocation and Migration of Rural Residents 

主讲人： 邢春冰 

讲座时间：2014年10月30日下午3:00-4:30 

讲座地点：学术会堂602 

主讲人简介： 

邢春冰，2006年毕业于北京大学，现为北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院教授，博士生导师，加拿大西安大略大学经济系博士后和访问学者，德国IZA研究员。主要研究领域为人力资本、移民和收入分配，相关研究成果发表在IZAJournal of Labor and Development、Journal of Banking& Finance、China Economic Review、《经济研究》、《经济学季刊》和《金融研究》等国内外权威学术刊物，2004年以来已发表中英文论文30余篇。课题方面，邢春冰教授曾主持国家自然科学基金、教育部人文社会科学基金以及IDRC/CIGI研究项目。  

内容简介: 

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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2014年10月24日