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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...

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Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants

d'Hombres, Beatrice; Nunziata, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We use European Social Survey and Labour Force Survey data to estimate the causal effect of education on European … natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in Europe in the 1960s through the 1990s. Our … findings show that higher education leads to a more positive attitude toward immigrants. We also investigate the mechanisms …

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