@EdWorkingPaper{ai21-368,
title = "Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students",
author = "David Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Riccardo Marchingiglio, Umut Özek, Paola Sapienza",
institution = "Annenberg Institute at Brown University",
number = "368",
year = "2021",
month = "March",
URL = "http://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai21-368",
abstract = {We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection into schools, and find that the presence of immigrant students has a positive effect on the academic achievement of US-born students, especially for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Moreover, the presence of immigrants does not affect negatively the performance of affluent US-born students, who typically show a higher academic achievement compared to immigrant students. We provide suggestive evidence on potential channels.},
}