Based on an innovative survey of seventh graders in German secondary schools, this paper analyzes students' feelings … that they should be on a higher educational track, We show that ethnic minority students are not only more likely than … majority students to be placed in the lowest track, but they are also more likely to perceive this track placement as a …

migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after … primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent … cohorts within schools and drawing special attention to time trends, the analysis shows that migrant students suffer from …

The distribution of Roma and non-Roma students across schools has become considerably more unequal in Hungary since the … segregation, in 100 Hungarian towns. We combine administrative data with data from a survey that we collected from municipality … Hungarian towns, free school choice diminishes the role of residential distribution because many students commute to schools of …

ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we contribute to this debate by analyzing ethnic segregation before … and after the reform. We discuss drawbacks of commonly used segregation indices and their interpretation as well as … causality issues. Although there is an increase in segregation over the time period studied, our results show that segregation …