Does education affect immigration attitudes? Evidence from an education reform
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10.1016/j.electstud.2018.06.009Sammendrag
Empirical research consistently finds that people with high education have more
liberal immigration attitudes. To what extent this relationship reflects a causal
effect of education is, however, largely unknown. We rely on the staggered
introduction of a major Norwegian education reform to get exogenous variation
in respondents’ level of education. The reform lifted the bottom of the education
distribution by increasing the compulsory years of education by two years. We
find no significant differences in immigration attitudes between those who were
educated in the old and the new education system. Our results suggest that if
education has a causal effect on immigration attitudes, it is likely to operate on
other education margins.