Abstract
This study closely examines long-term outcomes of intermarriage in Denmark in terms of children’s educational performance, studying grades from final examinations. The study uses rich register data, where families are linked across generations, and contributes to the migration literature by providing new insights into the human capital formation in inter-ethnic families. The outcomes of children of intermarriage are very much in line with the outcomes of children with two native-born Danish parents. Compared to second-generation immigrants, children of intermarriage perform substantially better, and these differences remain even when school and family-level confounders are taken into account. Moreover, this paper explores the heterogeneous character of the 2.5 generation in Denmark and studies the importance of parental country of origin. Parental country of origin is of significance for the educational performance of children from intermarriage in Denmark, as the performance of children with a non-native parent originating from countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America is closer to that of second-generation immigrants, rather than natives. This association remains (for certain groups) when controlling for unobserved heterogeneity at the school and family level.
Highlights
Intermarriage has long been regarded as an important indicator of immigrant integration
Studying the educational attainment of children of intermarriage is important since it tells something about the long-term outcomes—or the intergenerational effects—of intermarriage
This paper contributes to the literature by comparing grade outcomes in the core subjects Danish and mathematics of children of intermarriage to grades of native Danes, as well as to children belonging to the immigrant second generation
Summary
Intermarriage has long been regarded as an important indicator of immigrant integration. Results show that having two foreign-born parents is associated with negative outcomes in Danish, as the second-generation immigrants fare worse compared to the 2.5 generation and native Danes. These results indicate that the difference in performance between the second generation and the 2.5 generation can be explained in part by unobserved heterogeneity on the family level, shared between cousins, which is reduced in the fixed effect models.
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