PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Shushanik Margaryan
AU  - Annemarie Paul
AU  - Thomas Siedler
TI  - Does Education Affect Attitudes towards Immigration?
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.56.2.0318-9372R1
DP  - 2021 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 446--479
VI  - 56
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/446.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/446.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2021 Mar 31; 56
AB  - 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 labor market outcomes, higher social trust appears to be an important mechanism behind our findings.