Hyll, Walter; Schneider, Lutz - In: Wirtschaft im Wandel 17 (2011) 6, pp. 217-225
In rural areas school closures are often linked to a decline in population. Do school closures stimulate enhanced emigration? This paper analyses whether family migration is affected by the existence of primary schools. We conduct an empirical study for the East German province Saxony-Anhalt for...