Intergenerational spillover effects of language training for refugees

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Peri, Giovanni; Arendt, Jacob Nielsen; Bolvig, Iben
• 署名单位: University of Copenhagen; University of London; University College London; University of California System; University of California Davis
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104840
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: Intergenerational Effects of Integration; POLICY; Immigrant children; Language skills; regression discontinuity

摘要

Children of refugees are among the most economically disadvantaged youth in several European coun-tries. They are more likely to drop out of school and to commit crime. We find that a reform in Denmark in 1999 that expanded language training for adult refugees and was shown to improve their earnings and job market outcomes permanently, also increased lower secondary school completion rates and decreased juvenile crime rates for their children. The crime effect is entirely due to boys who were below school age when their parents received language training. The older cohorts who were in elemen-tary school when their parents received language training performed better in lower secondary school. Boys were more likely to finish lower secondary school and to sit the final exams, and girls achieved higher grade point averages in the exams. (c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).