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The Effect of Early Childhood Education and Care Services on the Social Integration of Refugee Families

Discussion Papers 1828, 52 S.

Ludovica Gambaro, Guido Neidhöfer, C. Katharina Spieß

2019

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Published in: Labour Economics 72 (2021), 102053

Abstract

Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Exploiting differences in services availability across counties as an exogenous source of variation, we evaluate the effect of early education attendance by refugee children on their parents’ integration. We find a significant and substantial positive effect, in particular on the social integration of mothers. The size of the estimate is on average around 52% and is mainly driven by improved language proficiency and employment prospects.



JEL-Classification: I26;J13;J15
Keywords: asylum seekers, refugees, childcare, early education, integration
Frei zugängliche Version: (econstor)
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/206633

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