@article{Boucher:276263,
      recid = {276263},
      author = {Boucher, Steve and Stark, Oded and Taylor, J. Edward},
      title = {Gain with a Drain? Evidence from Rural Mexico on the New  Economics of the Brain Drain},
      address = {2005-10-03},
      number = {1546-2018-5482},
      series = {ZEF – Discussion Papers on Development Policy No. 99},
      pages = {26},
      month = {Oct},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {Evidence is presented in support of the “brain gain” view  that the likelihood of migrating to a destination wherein  the returns to human capital (schooling) are high creates  incentives to acquire human capital in migrant-sending  areas. In Mexico, even though internal migrants are more  educated than those who stay behind, the average level of  schooling in the migrant-sending villages increases with  internal migration. This finding is consistent with the  hypothesis that the dynamic investment effects reverse the  static, depletion effects of migration on schooling.  Households’ access to high-skill internal migration  networks significantly increases the likelihood that  children will attend school beyond the compulsory level.  Access to low-skill internal networks has the opposite  effect. By contrast with internal migration, migration from  rural Mexico to the U.S. does not select positively on  schooling, nor does it significantly influence human  capital formation, even though remittances from Mexican  migrants in the U.S. far outweigh remittances from internal  migrants. },
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/276263},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.276263},
}