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Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China

Alan de Brauw and John Giles
Journal of Human Resources, January 2017, 52 (1) 272-311; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.52.1.0813-5900R
Alan de Brauw
Alan de Brauw is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. John Giles is a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.
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Alan de Brauw is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. John Giles is a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.
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