Estimating the effect of early-childhood citizenship on education using policy changes as instruments

Kamila Cygan-Rehm

Applied Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 25, issue 20, 1426-1431

Abstract: This article investigates the effect of early-childhood citizenship status on secondary school education of immigrant offspring. Given the potential endogeneity of naturalization decision, I instrument for citizenship by using a German reform that introduced exogenous variation in the age of naturalization. The reform provides powerful instruments, significantly raising the likelihood of possessing a German passport in childhood. I find that citizenship status increases the probability of attending the highest school track, which gives access to academic education. The effects are of a similar magnitude for boys and girls.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2018.1430303

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