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CREATED:20231212T094124
SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Stefano Gagliarducci - Tor Vergata University of Rome, EIEF
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:\n\nChurch, State and Education: School Funding and Catholic Assimilation i
 n the U.S\n\n\nAbstract:\nWe study how the allocation of public funds affec
 ts the diffusion of confessional schools and the assimilation of immigrants
 . We focus on the Age of Mass Migration, when about 15 million European Cat
 holics migrated to the US, where public schools were de facto Protesta
 nt. To this purpose, we combine newly digitized data on Catholic parochial 
 schools for the period 1872-1925 with the full count US Censuses, wher
 e Catholic immigrants are identified through their nationality. We leverage
  on the staggered adoption of amendments across states between 1870-1920 ai
 med at defunding confessional education (the so-called Blaine Amendmen
 ts), and further exploit county-level variation in the size of Catholic com
 munities to achieve identification. We find that a cut in public funding fo
 r confessional education reduced the presence and the attendance to Catholi
 c schools. However, the effect of Blaine amendments on immigrants' assimila
 tion was more nuanced: while we observe a positive effect on human capital 
 accumulation, especially through schools, there was instead a negative impa
 ct on inter-group assimilation between Catholics and natives.\n
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