Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number ofresearchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills incities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result,however, is that...

This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation in Mexico once unobserved heterogeneity is accountedfor. Bivariate random effects dynamic probit models for cluster data are estimated to controlfor the endogeneity of education...