Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145199 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10065
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
academic achievement
immigrant children
peer effects
within-school estimation
JEL: 
I21
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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