TY - JOUR T1 - Does Education Affect Attitudes towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour DO - 10.3368/jhr.56.2.0318-9372R1 SP - 0318-9372R1 AU - Shushanik Margaryan AU - Annemarie Paul AU - Thomas Siedler Y1 - 2019/08/06 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/08/02/jhr.56.2.0318-9372R1.abstract N2 - 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. ER -