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

Z. Eylem Gevrek; Pinar Kunt; Heinrich W. Ursprung

doi:10.1007/s11127-019-00724-1

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

Z. Eylem Gevrek^*, Pinar Kunt^*, Heinrich W. Ursprung^*

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	563-585
Number of pages	23
Journal	Public Choice
Volume	186
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-019-00724-1
Publication status	Published - Mar 2021

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Education
Migration
Political discontent

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

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