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Education, Urban Poverty and Migration: Evidence from Bangladesh and Vietnam

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Stuart Cameron
Education, Urban Poverty and Migration: Evidence from Bangladesh and Vietnam
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This paper finds that rural-urban migrant households have fewer assets, live in worse housing conditions and in areas less well served by public schools, have fewer social connections in the area where they live, and contain adults with lower educational levels than for urban native households. Even conditional on these household characteristics, educational expenditure and grade attainment were both lower for children from migrant households than urban natives. The findings are consistent with migrant children’s education being impeded by bureaucratic obstacles such as the household registration system in Vietnam.
SERIESInnocenti Working Papers
SERIES No. 2012-15
DATE OF PUBLICATION2012
PAGES48
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education; poverty; rural urban migration;