DP8653 Immigration and the School System
| Author(s): | Facundo Albornoz-Crespo, Antonio Cabrales, Esther Hauk |
| Publication Date: | November 2011 |
| Keyword(s): | education, immigrant sorting, immigration, parental involvement, school resources |
| JEL(s): | I20, I21, I28, J24, J61 |
| Programme Areas: | Labour Economics, Public Economics |
| Link to this Page: | cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=8653 |
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging e ects 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 e ect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and natives' choices.