Investing in children’s education: are Muslim immigrants different?

Andreea Mitrut and François-Charles Wolff

Journal of Population Economics, 2014, vol. 27, issue 4, 999-1022

Abstract: Using a unique data set on immigrants living in France in 2003, we investigate whether Muslims invest differently in their children’s education compared to non-Muslims. In particular, we want to assess whether educational inequalities between the children of Muslim and non-Muslim immigrants stem from differences between or within families. After controlling for a broad set of individual and household characteristics, we find no difference in education between children of different religions. However, we do find more within-family inequality in children’s educational achievements among Muslims relative to non-Muslims. The within-family variance is 15 % higher among Muslims relative to Catholics and 45 % higher relative to immigrants with other religions, but the intra-family inequality remains difficult to explain. Overall, our results suggest that Muslim parents tend to redistribute their resources more unequally among their children. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

Keywords: Immigrants; Religion; Education; Intra-household inequality; France; J15; D13; Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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