Intergenerational spillover effects of language training for refugees
研究发现丹麦1999年扩大成人难民语言培训的改革,不仅改善了难民自身的就业和收入,还提高了其子女的初中毕业率并降低了青少年犯罪率,且影响因性别和年龄而异。
Children of refugees are among the most economically disadvantaged youth in several European countries. They are more likely to drop out of school and to commit crime. We find that a reform in Denmark in 1999 that expanded language training for adult refugees and was shown to improve their earnings and job market outcomes permanently, also increased lower secondary school completion rates and decreased juvenile crime rates for their children. The crime effect is entirely due to boys who were below school age when their parents received language training. The older cohorts who were in elementary school when their parents received language training performed better in lower secondary school. Boys were more likely to finish lower secondary school and to sit the final exams, and girls achieved higher grade point averages in the exams.