Using data for the United States, we explore how interactions with immigrants during school age affect imagination during adulthood for native children. The analysis uses The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health survey and focuses on the impact of differences in the number of immigrants across cohorts within schools. Results suggest that exposure to immigrant classmates has positive effects on the long-term imagination of natives. Increasing the number of immigrants in the grade by 20 students, would increase the likelihood of reporting a high level of imagination during adulthood by three percentage points. We suggest that the effect is not coming via direct friendship with immigrant students, but through increasing exposure to diverse ideas and experiences.

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探索差异：移民同龄人和当地人的想象力

使用美国的数据，我们探讨了学龄期间与移民的互动如何影响本土儿童成年后的想象力。该分析采用了全国青少年至成人健康纵向研究调查，重点关注学校内不同群体的移民数量差异的影响。结果表明，与移民同学接触对本地人的长期想象力有积极影响。如果年级中的移民人数增加 20 名学生，成年后表现出高水平想象力的可能性就会增加三个百分点。我们认为这种影响不是通过与移民学生的直接友谊来实现的，而是通过增加接触不同的想法和经验来实现的。