Understanding Responsibility in Financial Management: The Role of Fee Structures

Lucy Ward ()
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Lucy Ward: School of Economics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DT, UK

No 2024014, Working Papers from The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics

Abstract: Some theories suggest that encountering ethnic diversity broadens knowledge and perspectives, equipping individuals with cultural capital. This research examines whether high aspiring ethnic minority pupils influence the university aspirations of White pupils they interact with in the same school. We link White pupils’ reported university likelihood to administrative data on all pupils in England. As an instrument for exposure to ethnic minorities in 2014, we use the proportion of employed individuals in a local area that are nurses in 1951—an indicator of post-World War II job shortages filled by immigrant workers. The findings show that increasing ethnic minorities in schools positively impacts White pupils’ university aspirations. We provide some evidence of heterogeneous impacts across individual and family characteristics, suggesting that improving school diversity could aid in improving higher education participation for under-represented groups.

Keywords: Ethnic diversity; Peer effects; University; Instrumental variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 I21 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2024-11
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