Intergenerational Spillover Effects of Language Training for Refugees

Mette Foged, Linea Hasager, Giovanni Peri, Jacob Arendt and Iben Bolvig

No 30341, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Children of refugees are among the most economically disadvantaged youth in several European countries. They are more likely to drop out of school and to commit crime. We show that a reform in Denmark in 1999, that expanded language training for adult refugees and improved their economic integration, had significant intergenerational spillover effects in terms of higher completion rates from lower secondary school and lower juvenile crime rates. The effects on crime are driven by boys who were below school-starting age when their parents were treated.

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Date: 2022-08
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Published as Mette Foged & Linea Hasager & Giovanni Peri & Jacob Nielsen Arendt & Iben Bolvig, 2023. "Intergenerational spillover effects of language training for refugees," Journal of Public Economics, vol 220.

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