Does Immigration Affect Whether US Natives Major in Science and Engineering?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline
• 署名单位: Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Dallas
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/676660
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: S79-S108
• 关键词: gender-gap; college major; academic-performance; labor-market; school; INNOVATION; students; CHOICE; visa; persistence

摘要

Immigration may affect the likelihood that US natives major in science or engineering. Foreign-born students may crowd US natives out of science or engineering, or they may have positive spillovers on US natives that attract or retain them in those fields. This study uses data on college majors from the 2009-11 American Community Surveys to examine the effect of the immigrant share in US natives' age cohort while they are in high school or in college. We find some evidence that immigration adversely affects whether US-born women who graduated from college majored in a science or engineering field.