We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large … students. We study the impact of these two trends on the composition of school groups by observed ability and the importance of …