Evidence from OECD countries where extensions to mandatory education typically have been at the secondary level shows that increases in parental education as a result of the expansion of compulsory education have a significant positive effect on the educational outcomes of their offspring.32.
"This is part of the train wreck that is unfolding," said Richard P. Duran, an education professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, referring to the law's effect on the educational system.
By contrast, Beerli and Indergand (2014) find that the abolition of quotas for workers from European countries through a bilateral agreement with the EU in 2002 had a small but negative effect on the educational quality of immigrants to Switzerland.
This argument is also supported by Cortes (2015), who finds robust evidence that the mothers' migration, in contrast to fathers', has a negative effect on the educational outcomes of Filipino children.
The results show that the liberalization of migration had a negative effect on the educational profile of new EU-15 immigrants in the short run, but there is no such effect in the long run.
The migration of household members of households at the lower end of the human capital distribution has a significantly positive effect on the educational aspirations of caregivers for children in the household, while the overall effect of migration becomes indistinguishable from zero.
