Working Paper: CEPR ID: DP6688
Authors: Jan C. van Ours; Justus Veenman
Abstract: The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the educational attainment of children from such marriages. We find that children from Moluccan fathers and native mothers have a higher educational attainment than children from ethnic homogeneous Moluccan couples or children from a Moluccan mother and a native father.
Keywords: educational attainment; interethnic marriages
JEL Codes: I21; J15
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| interethnic marriages (J15) | children's educational attainment (I21) |
| Moluccan fathers and native mothers (J12) | children's educational attainment (I21) |
| Moluccan mothers and native fathers (J15) | children's educational attainment (I21) |
| type of interethnic marriage (J15) | children's educational attainment (I21) |
| parents' educational levels (I24) | children's educational attainment (I21) |