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Does Peer Motivation Impact Educational Investments? Evidence From DACA

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  • Briana Ballis

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Despite the significant influence that peer motivation is likely to have on educational investments during high school, it is difficult to test empirically since exogenous changes in peer motivation are rarely observed. In this paper, I focus on the 2012 introduction of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to study a setting in which peer motivation changed sharply for a subset of high school students. DACA significantly increased the returns to schooling for undocumented youth, while leaving the returns for their peers unchanged. I find that DACA induced undocumented youth to invest more in their education, which also had positive spillover effects on ineligible students (those born in the US) who attended high school with high concentrations of DACA-eligible youth.

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  • Briana Ballis, 2021. "Does Peer Motivation Impact Educational Investments? Evidence From DACA," Working Papers 2021-027, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:hka:wpaper:2021-027
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    Keywords

    high school; DACA; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals; undocumented youth; Spillover effects;
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    JEL classification:

    • I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
    • H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

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