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Table 4 The effect of migration (2SLS)

From: Migration and educational aspirations – Another channel of brain gain?

 

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Educational aspirations

Expectations

Migration aspirations

Migrant in 2011

3.22**

0.58

 

3.79**

2.71

 

0.39*

0.75***

 
 

(1.63)

(2.02)

 

(1.73)

(2.00)

 

(0.21)

(0.24)

 

Migrant in 2011*LEduc

 

4.95**

  

0.81

  

−0.68

 
  

(2.41)

  

(3.06)

  

(0.49)

 

Migrant in 2011 West

  

1.93

  

6.64**

  

0.30

   

(1.99)

  

(2.99)

  

(0.24)

Migrant in 2011 East

  

4.80**

  

0.77

  

0.57

   

(2.24)

  

(2.33)

  

(0.36)

Age of Child in years

−0.00

0.00

−0.01

0.00

0.01

0.01

0.01***

0.01***

0.01***

 

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.00)

(0.00)

(0.00)

Gender of Child (male = 1)

−0.59***

−0.60***

−0.61***

−0.71***

−0.72***

−0.73***

0.04**

0.04**

0.04**

 

(0.13)

(0.13)

(0.14)

(0.19)

(0.17)

(0.18)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.02)

Education of Caregiver

0.28***

0.25***

0.29***

0.47***

0.43***

0.45***

−0.00

0.01

−0.00

 

(0.03)

(0.05)

(0.03)

(0.05)

(0.07)

(0.05)

(0.00)

(0.01)

(0.01)

Other children (yes = 1)

0.07

0.05

0.18

0.28

0.19

0.12

0.02

0.03

0.04

 

(0.27)

(0.31)

(0.33)

(0.28)

(0.25)

(0.28)

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.05)

Obs

2503

2503

2503

2435

2435

2435

2926

2926

2926

F-Statistic

19.21

16.76

15.01

22.71

26.68

19.93

7.246

5.507

6.376

CDW F-Statistic

15.70

8.418

11.66

16.43

9.197

13.53

10.66

4.415

7.837

Hanson J-Statistic

0.164

0.452

-

0.0976

0.193

-

0.416

0.192

-

  1. Notes: Calculations based on households with children in CELB 2012. Robust standard errors in parentheses; ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1; Controlling also for caregiver characteristics, marital status of parents, ethnicity, and household composition; regional dummies included, migration stocks in Italy, Russia, Ukraine and Romania; Instruments are GDP per capita growth (2004-2010) in destination countries weighted by migrant network size in community in 2000; Standard errors clustered at the household level.