%0 Report
        %A Figlio, David N.
%A Giuliano, Paola
%A Marchingiglio, Riccardo
%A Ozek, Umut
%A Sapienza, Paola
        %T Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
        %D 2021
        %8 2021 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 14196
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14196
        %X 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.
        %K educational attainment
%K immigrant students