What is it about?
With data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 97, the study examined the effects of migration behaviors on education. It tested whether migration mediates the effects of academic ability on educational outcomes (“rural brain drain” hypothesis) or directly affects education, net of individual academic ability, family factors, and community environments (“migration gain” hypothesis).
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Why is it important?
It is essential to understand how migration across rural-non-rural boundaries influences youth education, given the chronic “rural brain drain,” the long-lasting geographic inequality in education, and rural community sustainability. The study contributes to understanding how students from both metro and non-metro areas navigate their status attainment process across places, how and to what degree communities are losing their talented young people, and the effects of unequally distributed educational resources across places.
Perspectives
As one whose parents moved to urban areas for education and jobs from rural places, migration across rural-non-rural boundaries is a charming topic for me. The publication is an effort to explore educational attainment as a process that happened across places, how individuals navigated their status attainment, facing unequally distributed resources and institutional barriers, and rural communities.
Xiao Li
Washington State University
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This page is a summary of: Migration Behaviors and Educational Attainment of Metro and
Non‐Metro
Youth
☆, Rural Sociology, May 2022, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ruso.12449.
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