International migration and the religious schooling of children in the home country: evidence from Bangladesh
研究孟加拉国家庭成员移民对儿童宗教学校选择的影响，发现移民至穆斯林国家增加男孩就读伊斯兰学校的概率，但移民至非穆斯林国家无显著影响，且移民不改变总体入学率，仅导致教育类型重新分配。
Abstract This paper investigates whether international migration increases the religious schooling of children in the home country. I find that migration by a household member from Bangladesh to a Muslim-majority country increases the likelihood that a male child in the household is sent to an Islamic school ( madrasa ). There is no significant impact on the likelihood of a male child’s madrasa enrollment if the household sends a member to a non-Muslim-majority country. Sending a household member abroad does not affect the likelihood of the household sending children to school at all; it only leads to reallocation toward Islamic schooling. The results are inconsistent with financial remittances underlying the effect of migration on religious schooling. Learning about the potential benefits of madrasa education may explain the results, but there are several weaknesses in the arguments in favor of this mechanism. A third potential mechanism is an increase in religiosity through migrants transferring religious preferences, but I cannot establish a causal relationship between international migration and migrant-sending households’ religiosity.