Investing in children's education: Are Muslim immigrants different?

Andreea Mitrut and François-Charles Wolff

No 575, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

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 religion, 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)
JEL-codes: D13 J15 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2013-10-11
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