Plausibly Exogenous [1190] - Labor Migration (05/06/2023)
LHS Variable
Human capital
RHS Variable
Labor migration
Source of Exogenous Variation
Spatial variation in the number of recruiting stations in a district as a proxy for (lower) labor migration costs that are exogenous to individuals and plausibly exogenous to the district, conditional on a set of baseline control variables
- Dinkelman and Mariotti (2016), “The long-run effects of labor migration on human capital formation in communities of origin”