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The paper tests whether native-born American families respond to inflows of immigrants by sending their children to private school.  The analysis uses 1980 and 1990 Census data from 132 metropolitan areas.  For primary school students, no significant relation between immigration and...
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Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren.  We also examine whether "white flight" is from all...
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Using 1990 Census microdata, we explore ethnic, racial and immigrant differences in private school attendance.  We find high rates of private school attendance among white natives, white immigrants, and Asian natives.  In contrast, we find low private school rates among black and Hispanic...
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We explore the relationship between political and economic inequality in the UK. …
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change are also reflected in very different patterns of inequality across (and within) minority groups, generations, and …
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This chapter investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past 40 years. This is … the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK through two channels: the first is the effect on the earnings … very small. We decompose wage inequality into inequality within the immigrant and native groups and inequality between the …
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There are marked differences in life expectancy between the regions of England, between the countries in the UK, and between the UK and other wealthy countries. Within England, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy at birth was more than two years higher in London and the South East...
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