The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment.

Autor/inn/en	Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T.
Institution	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Titel	The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Der kausale Effekt des Migrationsalters auf das Bildungsniveau junger Menschen.
Quelle	Berlin (2017), 56 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin. 908
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1864-6689
Schlagwörter	Lebensalter; Bildungsabschluss; Schulerfolg; Fremdsprachenkenntnisse; Erste Generation
Abstract	"We investigate the causal effect of age at migration on subsequent educational attainment in the destination country. To identify the causal effect we compare the educational attainment of siblings at age 21, exploiting the fact that they typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed effects. We take advantage of long running and detailed data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which entails an oversample of immigrants and provides information on language skills. We find significant effects of age at migration on educational attainment and a critical age of migration around age 6. The educational attainment of female immigrants responds more strongly to a high age at immigration than that of males. Also, language skills do not appear to be central for the causal connection between age at migration and educational attainment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/4