Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295533 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 06/16
Publisher: 
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, London
Abstract: 
We document large differences in educational attainment, criminal sentences and use of psychotropic medication between the children of immigrants and natives living in Finland. Among the offspring of immigrants from the OECD countries and the former Soviet Union, the disadvantage in education reverses and differences in criminal sentences disappear once we condition on parental income and location of residence. In contrast, large gaps remain for the children of immigrants from other regions, even conditional on background characteristics. Furthermore, the children of immigrants from all source areas are substantially less likely to use psychotropic medication than the offspring of natives despite their higher self-reported mental health problems. These results suggest that institutions designed to help disadvantaged natives do not fully reach the children of immigrants.
Subjects: 
children of immigrants
second-generation immigrants
education
crime
health
JEL: 
I14
I21
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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