Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/193274 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11980
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
attitudes towards immigration
intergenerational effects
schooling
externalities
instrumental variables estimation
JEL: 
I26
J15
J62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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