Unwelcome Guests? The Effects of Refugees on the Educational Outcomes of Incumbent Students

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Figlio, David; Ozek, Umut
• 署名单位: Northwestern University; National Bureau of Economic Research; American Institutes for Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/703116
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 1061-1096
• 关键词: immigrant concentration; schools; IMPACT

摘要

A point of contention in the refugee crisis involves possible adverse effects on host communities associated with poor, low-skilled migrants with low host-community language knowledge. We use unique matched birth and schooling records to examine the effects of a large influx of poor, non-English-speaking Haitian migrants into Florida public schools immediately following the devastating 2010 earthquake. We find zero or modestly positive estimated effects of these migrants on the educational outcomes of incumbent students in the year of the earthquake or in the 2 years that follow, regardless of the socioeconomic status, grade level, ethnicity, or birthplace of incumbent students.