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A ticket to ride: Education and migration from lagging areas |
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| Authors: | Guglielmo Barone Antonello d’Alessandro Guido de Blasio |
| Affiliation: | 1. Bank of Italy, Economic Research Unit, Bologna branch and RCEA, Piazza Cavour, 6 40124 Bologna, Italy;2. Bank of Italy, Economic Research Unit, Bari branch Corso Cavour, 4 70121 Bari, Italy;3. Bank of Italy, Directorate General for Economics, Statistics and Research, Via Nazionale, 91 00184 Roma, Italy |
| Abstract: | National policies may have heterogeneous effects at the regional level. When coming to programmes aimed at increasing human capital, worker mobility from poorer to richer regions can reduce the benefits of the policy for the former areas. We focus on Italy and estimate the impact of education on the probability of migrating from a lagging area to a leading one. Endogeneity is addressed by exploiting an increase in the minimum school-leaving age in an instrumental variable framework. We find that one additional year of education increases the probability to migrate by 1.7 percentage points (9% of the average migration rate). |
| Keywords: | Lagging areas education migration |