Determinants of the international mobility of students

Michel Beine*, Romain Noël, Lionel Ragot

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the determinants of the choice of location of international students. Building on the documented trends in international migration of students, we identify the various factors associated to the attraction of migrants as well as the costs of moving abroad. Using new data capturing the number of students from a large set of origin countries studying in a set of 13 OECD countries, we assess the importance of the various factors identified in the theory. We find support for a significant network effect in the migration of students, a result so far undocumented in the literature. We also find a significant role for cost factors such as housing prices and for attractiveness variables such as the reported quality of universities. In contrast, we do not find an important role for registration fees.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)40-54
Number of pages15
JournalEconomics of Education Review
Volume41
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Higher education policy
  • Migration costs
  • Network effect
  • Student mobility

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