Motivated to Succeed? Attitudes to Education among Native and Immigrant Pupils in England

Simon Burgess () and Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren

No 11678, IZA Discussion Papers from IZA Network @ LISER

Abstract: We study attitudes to education among English adolescents. Using PISA data, we show there is considerable variation in these attitudes depending on background: immigrant students have substantially and significantly more positive attitudes to school than native children, a difference that amounts to around 0.2 standard deviations. There is no difference between first- and second-generation immigrants, and the attitude gap does not appear to depend on particular schools' policies. We also show that students in London have more positive attitudes to education on average, but this is entirely accounted for by the distribution of children of immigrants in that city.

Keywords: education; human capital; motivation; immigrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2018-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-eur, nep-mig and nep-ure
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