González Chapela, JorgeJiménez-Martín, SergiVall-Castelló, Judit2023-04-202023-04-202023González Chapela J, Jiménez-Martín S, Vall Castello J. Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain. SERIEs. 2023;14:143-64. DOI: 10.1007/s13209-023-00272-41869-4187http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56526We exploit a country-wide child labor regulation that eliminated the difference in school/work alternatives for children born at the beginning and the end of the year to identify the causal effect of education on migration at low levels of schooling. By not relying on changes to the school system, we are more confident that our results are not driven by unobserved changes in school quality evolving differentially across regions. The results of a difference-in-differences methodology combined with an exploration of maternal characteristics and a regression discontinuity design suggest that internal migration hardly changed after the reform. A consideration of the external validity of this finding is also provided.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13209-023-00272-4Internal migrationEducationChild labor reformSpaininfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess