PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Margaryan, Shushanik
AU  - Paul, Annemarie
AU  - Siedler, Thomas
TI  - Does Education Affect Attitudes towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.56.2.0318-9372R1
DP  - 2019 Aug 06
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0318-9372R1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/08/02/jhr.56.2.0318-9372R1.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/08/02/jhr.56.2.0318-9372R1.full
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.