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 enroll their children in preschool …

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 …