Volume 9, No. 2, August 2010

 

A Change of Heart?

A Bivariate Probit Model of International Students' Change

of Return Intention

Jan-Jan Soon
Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand
and
College of Arts and Science, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Abstract

Using a bivariate probit model on a sample of 623 international students studying at tertiary-level courses in New Zealand universities, this paper identifies the factors that affect the change in the students' intention of whether or not to return to their home countries after completing their studies.

Key words: international students; intention change; return intention; bivariate probit
JEL classification: C25; J61; O15

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