Calendrier du 08 décembre 2017
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 08/12/2017 de 12:45 à 13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
MCCAIG Brian (Wilfrid Laurier University)
FDI and human capital: Evidence from Vietnam
écrit avec Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College) and Nancy Wu (University of Oxford)
We examine the impacts on education of the rapid growth of FDI jobs in Vietnam between 2000 and 2008. We exploit the variation in timing of FDI job growth across provinces in Vietnam. Using cohort analysis from census data we demonstrate that FDI has mixed effects on years of schooling that depend critically on the exact specification. We supplement this analysis with nationally representative individual panel data that allows us to observe individual-level transitions from attending school to not attending school. We find evidence of an increase in school attendance in response to FDI jobs, but mixed evidence on the highest grade completed.