Migration and educational aspirations – Another channel of brain gain?

Table 5 Average treatment effects based on propensity score matching results

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)
	Educational aspirations			Expectations			Migration aspirations
Matching algorithm	Five nearest-neighbor matching	Radius matching	Nonparametric matching	Five nearest-neighbor matching	Radius matching	Nonparametric matching	Five nearest-neighbor matching	Radius matching	Nonparametric matching
ATT	0.42	0.42	0.34	0.58	0.32	0.40	0.04	0.05	0.04
Bootstrap SE	0.12	0.15	0.10	0.20	0.23	0.17	0.02	0.02	0.02
Pr(\|T\| > \|t\|)	0.000	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.15	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.01
Obs	3027	3027	3027	2944	2944	2944	3547	3547	3547

Notes: Calculations based on households with children in CELB 2012. Propensity score based on child age and gender, orphan and semi-orphan status, caregiver characteristics, marital status of parents, ethnicity, household composition, and districts; Balancing properties in 7 blocks was satisfied, Caliper fixed at 0.05; Only observations on common support were included; Bootstraped standard errors based on 100 replications in parentheses.