Why Birthright Citizenship Matters for Immigrant Children: Short- and Long-Run Impacts on Educational Integration
研究德国引入出生公民权对移民儿童在学前教育、小学和中学三个阶段教育成果的影响，发现该政策提高了学前教育参与率、促进了小学阶段进步并增加了进入学术型中学的可能性。
This paper examines whether the introduction of birthright citizenship in Germany affected immigrant children’s educational outcomes at the first three stages of the education system: preschool, primary school, and secondary school. Using a birth date cutoff as a source of exogenous variation, we find that the policy (i) increased immigrant children’s participation in noncompulsory preschool education, (ii) had positive effects on key developmental outcomes measured at the end of the preschool period, (iii) caused immigrant children to progress faster through primary school, and (iv) increased the likelihood of them attending the academic track of secondary school.