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High-achieving minority students can have more friends and fewer adversaries : evidence from Hungary
Hajdu, Tamás; Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor - 2015
This study examines friendship and hostility relations between Roma students and the ethnically homogeneous non-Roma majority in Hungarian schools, where anti-Roma sentiments are strong. High-achieving Roma students have significantly more friends and fewer adversaries than low-achieving ones...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451370
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Inter-ethnic friendship and hostility between Roma and non-Roma students in Hungary : the role of exposure and academic achievement
Hajdu, Tamás; Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor - 2017
This study examines friendship and hostility relations between Roma students and the ethnically homogeneous non-Roma majority in Hungarian schools. Using data on friendship and hostility relations of 15-year-old students from 82 schools the study focuses on the interaction between exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867723
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An economic model of friendship : homophily, minorities and segregation
Currarini, Sergio; Jackson, Matt O.; Pin, Paolo - 2007
We develop a model of friendship formation that sheds light on segregation patterns observed in social and economic … networks. Individuals come in different types and have type-dependent benefits from friendships; we examine the properties of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003912120
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Social networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568736
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Conformism, social norms and the dynamics of assimilation
Olcina Vauteren, Gonzalo; Panebianco, Fabrizio; Zenou, Yves - 2018
We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821187
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Migrants and educational achievement gaps : avoiding segregation and compensating for parental disadvantage can reduce migrants' educational achievement gabs
Entorf, Horst - 2015
As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants' achievement scores lag well behind those of their nativeborn schoolmates. Performance gaps are explained largely by differences in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430761
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School segregation, school choice and educational policies in 100 Hungarian towns
Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor - 2013
segregation, in 100 Hungarian towns. We combine administrative data with data from a survey that we collected from municipality … heterogeneity across towns. The more segregationist the local policies are, the higher the segregation in the town, thus suggesting … that local policies have room to influence school segregation in this system. However, the impact of local educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764546
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Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes : evidence from race-blind magnet school lotteries
Cook, Jason - 2018
also find that segregation is further exacerbated by "white flight" as white students transfer out of the district after … attending more segregated schools. Ultimately, the mandated segregation decreases student standardized test scores and four …-year college attendance. I provide suggestive evidence that the impact of racial segregation is partially mediated by changes to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946165
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Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes : evidence from race-blind magnet school lotteries
Cook, Jason - 2018
. Segregation is further exacerbated by "white flight" as white students transfer out of the district after attending more … segregated schools. Ultimately, mandated segregation decreases student test scores and college attendance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929625
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Ethnic enclaves and immigrant self-employment : a neighborhood analysis of enclave size and quality
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Öner, Özge - 2017
We explore the effects of neighborhood-level ethnic enclaves on the propensity of immigrants to use business ownership as a vehicle to transcend from labor market outsiders to insiders. We exploit an exogenously partitioned grid of geocoded 1-by-1 km squares to approximate neighborhoods, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775558