Intergenerational Spillover Effects of Language Training for Refugees

Author(s)

Giovanni Peri
Mette Foged
Linea Hasager
Jacob N. Arendt
Iben Bolvig
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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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NBER recently posted a new working paper, by Giovanni Peri and a team of Danish coauthors. This team shows that a reform that increased language classes for Danish Refugees by 300 hours over the first three years of residence, increased the probability that their children completed middle school by 5 to 8 percentage points. Also shown was a decrease in juvenile crime up to 10 percentage points.

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