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@techreport{NBERw18266,
 title = "Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico",
 author = "David Atkin",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "18266",
 year = "2012",
 month = "August",
 doi = {10.3386/w18266},
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w18266",
 abstract = {This paper presents empirical evidence that the growth of export manufacturing in Mexico during a period of major trade reforms, the years 1986-2000, altered the distribution of education. I use variation in the timing of factory openings across commuting zones to show that school dropout increased with local expansions in export manufacturing. The magnitudes I find suggest that for every twenty-five jobs created, one student dropped out of school at grade 9 rather than continuing through to grade 12. These effects are driven by less-skilled export-manufacturing jobs which raised the opportunity cost of schooling for students at the margin.},
}