primary school in the Catalonia region. I do so by taking advantage of how the policy was announced, leading to a sharp …

We exploit a country-wide child labor regulation that eliminated the difference in school/work alternatives for … children born at the beginning and the end of the year to identify the causal effect of education on migration at low levels of … schooling. By not relying on changes to the school system, we are more confident that our results are not driven by unobserved …