[lg policy] New NBER working paper--The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From: Russell Rumberger <russ at education.ucsb.edu>
Date: Sat, May 12, 2012 at 2:31 PM

New NBER working paper--The Impact of Immigration on the Educational
Attainment of Natives


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*The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives*
*by *Jennifer Hunt  *

Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the
impact of immigration on the high school completion of natives in the
United States. Immigrant children could compete for schooling resources
with native children, lowering the return to native education and
discouraging native high school completion. Conversely, native children
might be encouraged to complete high school in order to avoid competing
with immigrant high-school dropouts in the labor market. I find evidence
that both channels are operative and that the net effect is positive,
particularly for native-born blacks, though not for native-born Hispanics.
An increase of one percentage point in the share of immigrants in the
population aged 11-64 increases the probability that natives aged 11-17
eventually complete 12 years of schooling by 0.3 percentage points, and
increases the probability for native-born blacks by 0.4 percentage points.
I account for the endogeneity of immigrant flows by using instruments based
on 1940 settlement patterns.
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