The Effect of Education on Geographic Mobility: Incidence, Timing, and Type of Migration

We take advantage of a major compulsory school reform in Turkey to provide novel evidence on the causal effect education both incidence and timing internal migration. In addition, for first time literature, we effects migration by reason find that while substantially increases among men, there is no an women. Women, however, become more likely migrate at earlier ages their reasons change. Revealing empowering role education, women move human capital investments employment purposes less be tied-movers.