Can Parental Migration Reduce Petty Corruption in Education?
The income generated from parental migration can increase funds available for children's education. In countries where informal payments to teachers are common migration could therefore increase petty corruption in education. This hypothesis i...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/685121490640814379/Can-parental-migration-reduce-petty-corruption-in-education http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26356 |
| Summary: | The income generated from parental
migration can increase funds available for children's
education. In countries where informal payments to teachers
are common migration could therefore increase petty
corruption in education. This hypothesis is tested by
investigating the effect of migration on educational inputs.
An instrumental variables approach is used on survey data
and matched administrative records from the World
Bank's Open Budget Initiative (BOOST) from Moldova, one
of the countries with the highest emigration rates. Contrary
to the positive income effect, the strongest
migration-related response in private education expenditure
that is found is a substantial decrease in informal payments
to public school teachers. Any positive income effect due to
migration must hence be overcompensated by some
payment-reducing effects. A number of potential explanations
at the family level, school level or community level are
discussed, several of these explanations ruled out and
possible interpretations for future research highlighted. |
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