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

Andreea Mitrut and François-Charles Wolff
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Andreea Mitrut: Uppsala University, GU - Göteborgs Universitet = University of Gothenburg, A.S.E. - The Bucharest University of Economic Studies / Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti

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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.

Keywords: Immigrants; religion; education; intra-household inequality; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-05-08
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Published in Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (4), pp.999-1022. ⟨10.1007/s00148-014-0519-7⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s00148-014-0519-7

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