PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Achard, Pascal
TI  - Exposure to Natives and Cultural Assimilation
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.0424-13521R2
DP  - 2025 Sep 09
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0424-13521R2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2025/09/02/jhr.0424-13521R2.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2025/09/02/jhr.0424-13521R2.full
AB  - This paper studies whether a lower presence of natives during immigrants’ childhood and adolescence impedes their cultural assimilation. I examine a culturally charged consumption - the usage of hormonal contraceptives by young immigrant women - and leverage the quasi-random allocation of asylum seekers in the Netherlands to identify causal effects. While exposure to native peers has a positive effect on educational attainment, I find at most a modest effect on cultural outcomes in this context. Results from alternative identification strategies confirm that exposure may not have a large effect on cultural assimilation.