Does Internal Migration Contribute To Women’s Educational Attainment? Evidence From Turkey

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2024-1

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Demirtaş, Şevval

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This study examines the effect of internal migrations on 25-49 aged women’s educational attainment and aims to determine whether such migrations contribute to the total years of schooling completed by these women or not. It also investigates the details of these women's demographic characteristics and their migrations, including their reasons and direction. To conduct this study, we use data from the 2018 Turkish Demographic Health Survey. In analysis, we primarily use the Ordinary Least Squares method, but due to the possible endogeneity problem of the migration decision, we also apply the Propensity Score Matching method. Our analysis suggests that the experience of at least one internal migration until the age of 25 contributes to mean total completed years of education of women aged 25-49 in Turkey. According to OLS, this contribution is 0.948 years, while PSM, which employs different matching techniques like nearest-neighborhood, caliper, and kernel matching, ranges between 1.107 and 1.225 years. When the number of experienced migrations considered, the OLS results show that women who have migrated one, two, three or more times before age 25 are more likely to have higher mean years of education than those who haven't migrated, by 0.383, 1.652, and 2.695 years, respectively. In addition, according to the OLS estimations, women who were born in a province center, have Turkish as mother tongue, and have a mother or father with primary complete or higher educational attainment rather than no education, tend to have higher mean total completed years of schooling.

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Internal migration, Women, Education, Turkey, Propensity score matching

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/108267

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis