TY  - JOUR
A1  - Margaryan, Shushanik
A1  - Paul, Annemarie
A1  - Siedler, Thomas
T1  - Does education affect attitudes towards immigration?
T2  - Journal of human resources
N2  - 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 labor market outcomes, higher social trust appears to be an important mechanism behind our findings.
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63232
SN  - 0022-166X
SN  - 1548-8004
VL  - 56
IS  - 2
SP  - 446
EP  - 479
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
CY  - Madison
ER  -