The Impact of Immigrant Peers on Native Students' Academic Achievement in Countries Where Parents of Immigrants Are Relatively Skilled

Kelvin Seah

No 10065, IZA Discussion Papers from IZA Network @ LISER

Abstract: This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three largest immigrant-receiving countries – United States, Australia, and Canada. Using a large cross-country dataset, variation in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the three countries. While exposure has a positive impact on Australian natives, it has a negative impact on Canadian natives. Exposure has no effect on U.S. natives. More importantly, I find that institutional factors, such as the way in which countries organise their educational systems, have a crucial bearing on how immigrant students affect their peers.

Keywords: academic achievement; immigrant children; peer effects; within-school estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2016-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-edu, nep-lab, nep-mig, nep-sea and nep-ure
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Published - published in: Australian Economic Review, 2021, 54(1), 94-116

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