TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Figlio, David N.
AU  - Giuliano, Paola
AU  - Marchingiglio, Riccardo
AU  - Ozek, Umut
AU  - Sapienza, Paola
        TI  - Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
        PY  - 2021/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14196
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14196
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - educational attainment
KW  - immigrant students
        ER  -