TY  - RPRT
CY  - Toulouse
ID  - publications985
UR  - http://tse-fr.eu/pub/24586
A1  - Auriol, Emmanuelle
A1  - Demonsant, Jean-Luc
Y1  - 2011/03/28/
N2  - The paper aims at studying determinants of schooling in traditional hierarchical societies
confronted with an established history of outmigration. In the village, a ruling caste
controls local political and religious institutions. For children who do not belong to the
ruling caste, migration is a social mobility factor that is enhanced by formal schooling.
Since formally educated children tend not to return, the ruling caste seeks to develop
family loyalty by choosing religious education instead. The theory hence predicts that
the social status of the family has a significant impact on educational choice. Children
from the ruling caste who are sent abroad have a lower probability of being sent to formal
school. They are more likely to be sent to Koranic schools that emphasize religious
and family values. The theoretical predictions are tested on data from Matam region in
Senegal, a region where roughly one of every two children have ever attended school.
PB  - TSE Working Paper
T3  - TSE Working Paper
KW  - Schooling
KW  - Migration
KW  - Social Status
KW  - Haalpulaar
M1  - working_paper
TI  - Education and Migration Choices in Hierarchical Societies: The Case of Matam, Senegal
AV  - public
EP  - 47
ER  -