Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany

Shushanik Margaryan, Annemarie Paul () and Thomas Siedler
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Annemarie Paul: University of Hamburg

No 11980, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very concerned about immigration to Germany by around six percentage points (20 percent). Furthermore, our findings imply significant spillovers from maternal education to immigration attitudes of her offspring. While we find no evidence for returns to education within a range of labour market outcomes, higher social trust appears to be an important mechanism behind our findings.

Keywords: instrumental variables estimation; externalities; schooling; intergenerational effects; attitudes towards immigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I26 J15 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2018-11
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Published - published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (2), 446-479

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