Does education affect attitudes towards immigration? Evidence from Germany

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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 labour market outcomes, higher social trust appears to be an important mechanism behind our findings.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 1001

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Returns to Education ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Subject: attitudes towards immigration ; intergenerational effects ; schooling ; externalities ; instrumental variables estimation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Margaryan, Shushanik ; Paul, Annemarie ; Siedler, Thomas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/191628
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET