Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34820 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3308
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the educational attainment of children from such marriages. We find that children from Moluccan fathers and native mothers have a higher educational attainment than children from ethnic homogeneous Moluccan couples or children from a Moluccan mother and a native father.
Subjects: 
Interethnic marriages
educational attainment
JEL: 
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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