primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent …

This paper studies the limits of school choice policies in the presence of residential segregation. Using data from the …

primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent …

This paper studies the evolution of school segregation in Sweden in the aftermath of the 1992 universal school voucher … school segregation. In particular, it exploits variation in school choice opportunities across municipalities, and provides … descriptive evidence that in regions where school choice has become more prevalent, school segregation between immigrants and …

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 …

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 …