Immigration and the School System
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Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging effects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to explain the selection of immigrants in terms of parental motivation and the policies which favor a positive selection. Also, we can study the effect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants’ and natives’ choices. JEL-Classification: I20, I21, I28, J24. J61. Key-words: education, immigration, school resources, parental involvement, immigrant sorting. ∗We thank Roberto Burguet, Omar Licandro and seminar participants at the IAE for valuable comments. Hauk thanks the LSE for its hospitality and acknowledges financial support from from CICYT project number ECO2009-12695 and from the Barcelona GSE research and the government of Catalonia. Facundo Albornoz is thankful to Universidad de San Andrés for its hospitality. †Department of Economics, Birmingham University; email: [email protected] ‡Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; email: [email protected] §Instituto de Análisis Económico (IAE-CSIC) and Barcelona Graduate School, Campus UAB, Bellaterra (Barcelona); email: [email protected].
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