The Effect of Foreign Students on Native Students' Outcomes in Higher Education

Julián Costas-Fernández () and Greta Morando ()
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Julián Costas-Fernández: University College London
Greta Morando: University of Sheffield

No 15187, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and labour market outcomes of natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of foreign students within university-degree across four cohorts of undergraduate students. Foreign peers have zero to mild effects on natives' educational outcomes, such as graduation probability and degree classification. Large effects are found on displacement across universities and degree types after enrolment, although these outcomes are rare occurrences. In line with the mild effects on education outcomes, we also find little effect of foreign peers affecting early labour market outcomes of native graduates.

Keywords: immigration; higher education; peer effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 I21 I23 I24 I26 J15 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2022-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-eur, nep-lab, nep-mig, nep-ore and nep-ure
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Published - published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 160, 104595

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