Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision- making. For example, in … citizenship or not. We find that the policy caused immigrant parents to (i) send their children to preschool more often; (ii … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enrol their children in preschool …

hypothesize that endowing immigrant children with citizenship rights levels the playing field between them and their native peers …

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …

Does granting birthright citizenship help immigrant children integrating in the host country's educational system? We … address this question using a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1 …, 2000 with birthright citizenship. We use a difference-in-difference design that compares children born shortly before and …

Does birthright citizenship boost immigrant children's educational participation and success? We address this question … relying on a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1, 2000 to birthright … citizenship. We isolate the impact of birthright citizenship by comparing children born shortly before and shortly after the …

rule out large effects for children whose parents have a strong preference for sending them to early child care. …While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of …