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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Popul Econ. 2012 Jun 7;25(4):1187–1214. doi: 10.1007/s00148-012-0423-y

Table 7. The Effect of Parental Migration on Child Education with Combined Base Group.

Base group includes children whose parents had domestic migration experience and those whose parents had no migration experience

(1) (2) (3)

Boys & Girls Education (Yrs) Boys Education (Yrs) Girls Education (Yrs)
Father Migrated to US Before Child Was 20 0.258 [0.207] 0.229 [0.378] 0.729 [0.293]**
Birth Order 0.075 [0.019]*** 0.068 [0.035]* 0.067 [0.030]**
Oldest 0.428 [0.044]*** 0.47 [0.083]*** 0.322 [0.068]***
Youngest 0.005 [0.060] −0.135 [0.113] 0.065 [0.092]
Female −0.231 [0.033]***
Family Fixed Effects YES YES YES
Birth Year Dummies YES YES YES
Observations 34670 16412 18258
Number of families 9003 7170 7529
Number of families for IDa 136 71 78
Avg. Value of Dep. Var. 7.95 8.11 7.81

Robust standard errors in brackets

*

significant at 10%;

**

significant at 5%;

***

significant at 1%

a

Number of families for ID refers to number of families with children above and below the cut-off age at time of father’s migration