The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives

By J. Hunt. The Journal of human resources, 2017

128 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Using a state panel from 1940–2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school completion of natives in the United States. Immigrant children could influence native children’s educational experience as well as their expected future labor market. I find evidence for both channels and a positive net effect. An increase of one percentage point in the share of immigrants in the population aged 11–64 increases the probability that natives aged 11–17 eventually complete 12 years of schooling by 0.3 percentage point. I account for the endogeneity of immigrant flows by using instruments based on 1940 settlement patterns.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Shift-Share Instruments and the Impact of Immigration (2018, unknown): “Hunt (2012) and Wozniak et al. (2012) remove the area’s own inflows from the national inflow rate to reduce the endogeneity to local conditions.”
• Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment (2017, unknown): “For instance, firms might change their technology (see, e.g., Lewis 2011), labor market entrants might invest more in full-time education (see, e.g., Hunt 2012 and Smith 2012), and even experienced workers might upgrade to more skilled occupations (Peri and Sparber 2009).”