% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @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.}, }