Education's Effect on Poverty: The Role of Migration.

The article presents a paper presented during the "Rural Poverty Revisited: A New Look at Place and Policy" session at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association on January 5-7, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. The authors report on a study which showed that even though more education enhances the possibility of moving from a rural area to the city and decreases the probability of being poor, it is additional education and not moving that decreases poverty risk.