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Education's effect on poverty: the role of migration and labor markets

Creator:

Weber, Bruce, Marre, Alexander, Fisher, Monica, Gibbs, Robert, and Cromartie, John

Abstract:

Improving the quality of education and encouraging students to stay in school is one possible strategy for reducing poverty and raising local well-being in rural areas. A potential obstacle to this strategy, however, is outmigration to metro areas due to the lack of demand for this better-educated rural workforce, and...

Resource Type:

Working Paper

Full Text:

Fisher Robert Gibbs John Cromartie April 2007 (revised April 2008) Working Paper Number