中文摘要
本文研究移民在童年与青少年时期本地人较少存在是否会阻碍其文化同化。我考察一种具有强烈文化色彩的消费——年轻移民女性对激素避孕药的使用——并利用荷兰对寻求庇护者的准随机安置来识别因果效应。虽然接触本地同龄人对教育获得有正向影响,但在该情境中,接触对文化结果至多只有适度影响。替代识别策略的结果证实,接触对文化同化的影响可能并不大。
Abstract
Abstract This paper studies whether a lower presence of natives during immigrants’ childhood and adolescence impedes their cultural assimilation. I examine a culturally charged consumption - the usage of hormonal contraceptives by young immigrant women - and leverage the quasi-random allocation of asylum seekers in the Netherlands to identify causal effects. While exposure to native peers has a positive effect on educational attainment, I find at most a modest effect on cultural outcomes in this context. Results from alternative identification strategies confirm that exposure may not have a large effect on cultural assimilation.