Immigration and the School System

Facundo Albornoz, Antonio Cabrales and Esther Hauk

No 590, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging effects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a frame- work where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to explain the selection of immigrants in terms of parental motivation and the policies which favor a positive selection. Also, we can study the effect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and natives' choices.

Keywords: education; immigration; school resources; parental involvement; immigrant sorting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 I28 J24 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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