时间：5月14日下午2:00-3:30   地点：国发院经济中心万众楼一楼小教室   演讲人：Robert Jensen, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania   题目：KEEPIN' 'EM DOWN ON THE FARM: MIGRATION AND STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN CHILDREN'S SCHOOLING     摘要: In rural areas of many developing countries, intergenerational coresidence is both widespread and an important determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one child to remain at home, for example so they can work on the farm or provide care and assistance around the household. However, children themselves may prefer to migrate to a city when they grow up, and parents cannot directly prevent them from doing so. We present a model where parents may strategically limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity, and will thus voluntarily choose to remain home. We test this theory using an intervention that provided recruiting services for the business process outsourcing industry in randomly selected rural Indian villages. Because awareness of these high-paying, high education, urban jobs was limited at baseline, the intervention increased the attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, we find that those children that parents report at baseline they want to remain home experience declines in enrollment in response to the treatment. Though those children that parents want to migrate have increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate.