Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance

Timothy Diette and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

American Economic Review, 2014, vol. 104, issue 5, 412-17

Abstract: Recent evidence suggests that exposure to a larger share of Limited English (LE) students is associated with a slight decline in performance for students at the top of the achievement distribution. In this paper we explore whether LE peer effects differ by gender and race. Utilizing school-by-year fixed effect methods that allow us to address possible endogeneity with respect to the schools students attend, we find evidence of heterogeneous peer effects of LE students on natives. Specifically, we find no LE student peer effects on females' achievement in math and reading but significant negative effects on males and black students.

JEL-codes: H75 I21 I28 J15 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.5.412
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