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Spillover Effects of Studying with Immigrant Students: A Quantile Regression Approach

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  • Ohinata, Asako

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    (University of Leicester)

  • van Ours, Jan C.

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    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Abstract

We analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children in terms of their language and math performance at the end of primary school. Our paper studies the spill-over effects at different parts of the test score distribution of native Dutch students using a quantile regression approach. We find no evidence of negative spillover effects of the classroom presence of immigrant children at the median of the test score distribution. In addition, there is no indication that these spill-over effects are present at other parts of the distribution.

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Length: 33 pages
Date of creation: Nov 2013
Publication status: published as 'Quantile Peer Effects of Immigrant Children at Primary Schools' in: Labour, 2016, 30 (2), 135 - 157
Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp7720
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Keywords: educational attainment; peer effects; immigrant children;

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  • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
  • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

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Cited by:

  1. Bartelsman, Eric & Dobbelaere, Sabien & Peters, Bettina, 2013. "Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands," IZA Discussion Papers 7540, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  2. Thomas Ahn & Christopher Jepsen, 2015. "The effect of sharing a mother tongue with peers: evidence from North Carolina middle schools," IZA Journal of Migration, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 4(1), pages 1-21, December.
  3. Peter Jensen, 2015. "Immigrants in the classroom and effects on native children," IZA World of Labor, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), pages 194-194, October.

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