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Immigration is an important feature of many societies, and it has wideranging effects on the education systems of host countries. There is now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We study a model of family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. Within this framework, we address two research questions. First, we study the effect of immigration on the different dimensions of the school system, such as student effort, parental involvement, school incentives and resources and how the endogenous response of the school system to immigration is interrelated with both immigrants' and natives' educational choices. Second, we explain the selection of immigrants when schooling considerations are relevant for the immigration decision and discuss the selection effect of different immigration policies ; Hauk acknowledges financial support from from CICYT project number ECO2009-12695 and from the Barcelona GSE research and the government of Catalonia ; Peer reviewed

This paper presents a tractable model to study the effect of immigration on host countries' school system and student outcomes. In our model, education quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously by the interaction of parents, schools and policy-makers deciding educational resources. Immigration decisions are based on economic factors, immigration policy, as well as on "parental motivation" (parents' concerns about their children education achievement). The model yields results that are consistent with central empirical regularities of the school effects of immigration: (1) there is a negative effect of immigrant pupils on native students; (2) the increasing shares of immigrant students are associated with the decline of school resources and quality; (3) the school performance of immigrant children is positively associated with immigration costs; and (4) school achievement increases in parental motivation and those immigrant children with highly motivated parents tend to outperform native children. Importantly, our analysis clarifies under which conditions these empirical regularities take place and emphasizes that the effect of immigration on native pupils is mediated by the way the school system reacts to changes in class composition. ; Hauk acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Severo Ochoa Program for Centers of Excellence in R&D (SEV-2011-0075) and through CICYT project number ECO2012-37065 and from the government of Catalonia. ; Peer reviewed

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging e ects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to explain the selection of immigrants in terms of parental motivation and the policies which favor a positive selection. Also, we can study the e ect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and natives' choices ; Financial support from from CICYT project number ECO2009-12695 and from the Barcelona GSE research and the government of Catalonia ; Peer reviewed

The diagnosis of the problem of the contemporary world in the area of global media communication is a basic challenge for existing and modernized educational systems. Without a complete vision of the world, people cannot exist in a fully aware way. Hence, the most important questions related to such social development in which no one would be excluded from the world-wide circulation of information. The general assumptions of common media education have been presented in the article.