Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany

Shushanik Margaryan, Annemarie Paul and Thomas Siedler

No 1001, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very concerned about immigration to Germany by around six percentage points (20 percent). Furthermore, our findings imply significant spillovers from maternal education to immigration attitudes of her offspring. While we find no evidence for returns to education within a range of labour market outcomes, higher social trust appears to be an important mechanism behind our findings.

Keywords: attitudes towards immigration; intergenerational effects; schooling; externalities; instrumental variables estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I26 J15 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 p.
Date: 2018
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-mig
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Journal Article: Does Education Affect Attitudes towards Immigration?: Evidence from Germany (2021)
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