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Centralized admission systems and school segregation : evidence from a national reform
Kutscher, Macarena; Nath, Shanjukta; Urzua, Sergio - 2020
This paper investigates whether centralized admissions systems can alter school segregation. We take advantage of the … of residential segregation and local school supply. For instance, districts with prominent provision of private education … experience an uptick in school segregation due to SAS. Migration of high-SES students to private schools emerges as a key driver. …
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Socioeconomic school segregation in Chile : parental choice and a theoretical counterfactual analysis
Santos, Humberto; Elacqua, Gregory - In: CEPAL review (2016) 119, pp. 123-137
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Asian segregation and scholastic achievement : evidence from primary schools in New York City
D'Este, Rocco; Einiö, Elias - 2018
This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on academic performance of non-Asian students in New York City …
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Distance to schools and equal access in school choice systems
Laverde Quintero, Mariana - 2022
This paper studies the limits of school choice policies in the presence of residential segregation. Using data from the …
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Intergenerational mobility, school inequality and social segregation
Arenas, Andreu; Hindriks, Jean - 2017
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Immigrant concentration in schools : consequences for native and migrant students
Schneeweis, Nicole - 2013
In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and 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...
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Chapter 22 Income and Peer Quality Sorting in Public and Private Schools
Nechyba, Thomas J. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 1327-1368). 2006
Any system of primary and secondary schools involves explicit or implicit mechanisms that ration not only financial but also nonfinancial inputs into education production. This chapter focuses primarily on such mechanisms as they relate to the sorting of parents and children into schools and...
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Ethnic segregation in England’s schools
Burgess, Simon M.; Wilson, Deborah - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 inorder to contribute to the debate on the … of particular concern as scoring highly on both.Finally, we show that ethnic segregation is only weakly related to …
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Measuring School Segregation
Frankel, David; Volij, Oscar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010
districts.Properties of other school segregation indices are also discussed. In an empirical application,we document a weakening … of the effect of ethnicity on school assignmentfrom 1987/8 to 2007/8. We also show that segregation between districts … within citiescurrently accounts for 33% of total segregation. Segregation between states, drivenmainly by the distinct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360707
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An Axiomatization of the Multigroup AtkinsonSegregation Indices
Frankel, David; Volij, Oscar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008
This paper gives an axiomatic characterization of the Atkinson indices of segregationfor the multigroup case using a small number of purely ordinal axioms. We showthat the symmetric Atkinson index represents the unique ordering that treats ethnicgroups symmetrically, that is invariant to...
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