Fair Trade-Organic Coffee Cooperatives, Migration, and Secondary Schooling in Southern Mexico
利用墨西哥南部845户咖啡农户的调查数据，研究发现参与公平贸易有机合作社使女孩受教育年限增加约0.7年，而美国移民机会对女性教育有更强的正面影响。
Abstract We explore three trends in rural southern Mexico (Fair Trade coffee, migration, and conditional cash transfers) that could explain the rapid rise in education from 1995–2005 using survey data from 845 coffee farming households in Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico. Results from a household fixed-effects model show that household participation in a Fair Trade-organic cooperative contributed to about a 0.7 year increase in schooling for girls. US migration opportunities appear to have even stronger positive impacts on schooling for females. Although participation in Fair Trade-organic cooperatives appears also to have increased male schooling, increased migration opportunities have had an indeterminate effect for males.