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Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico

Atkin, David·2016·American Economic Review
DOI 10.1257/aer.20120901
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This paper presents empirical evidence that the growth of export manufacturing in Mexico during a period of major trade reforms (the years 1986 to 2000) altered the distribution of education. I use variation in the timing of factory openings across commuting zones to show that school drop-out increased with local expansions in export-manufacturing industries. The magnitudes I find suggest that for every 25 jobs created, one student dropped out of school at grade 9 rather than continuing through to grade 12. These effects are driven by less-skilled export-manufacturing jobs which raised the opportunity cost of schooling for students at the margin. (JEL F14, F16, J24, L60, O14, O19)

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Authors
Atkin, D.
Venue
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2016-08-01
Volume
106
Issue
8
Pages
2046-2085
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/aer.20120901
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W2109628740
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393
References
71
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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