Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very concerned about immigration to Germany by around six percentage points (20 percent). Furthermore, our findings imply significant spillovers from maternal education to immigration attitudes of her offspring. While we find no evidence for returns to education within a range of labour market outcomes, higher social trust appears to be an important mechanism behind our findings.

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教育是否影响对移民的态度？来自德国的证据

本文使用德国社会经济小组的数据并利用西德义务教育改革的交错实施，发现多上一年的学校可以将非常担心移民到德国的可能性降低约 6 个百分点 (20百分）。此外，我们的研究结果表明，母亲教育对其后代的移民态度有显着的溢出效应。虽然我们没有发现在一系列劳动力市场结果中教育回报的证据，但更高的社会信任似乎是我们发现背后的一个重要机制。