Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263403 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15187
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
peer effects
higher education
immigration
JEL: 
F22
I21
I23
I24
I26
J15
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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