PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bossavie, Laurent
TI  - The Effect of Immigration on Natives’ School Performance
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.55.3.1017-9151R2
DP  - 2020 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 733--766
VI  - 55
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/2/733.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/2/733.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2020 Mar 31; 55
AB  - This paper investigates the effects of exposure to immigrant classmates on natives’ scholastic achievement. I utilize rare information on age at migration to estimate separate spillover effects by duration of stay of immigrant classmates and use cohort-by-cohort changes in immigrant presence within schools to identify treatment effects. I find that exposure to immigrant students who have been in the country for a few years has no effect on natives. A small negative effect of recent immigrants on natives’ verbal scores only is reported. Effect sizes are quite small compared to other classroom interventions and peer effect estimates.