Much Ado about Nothing? The Role of Primary School Catchment Areas For Ethnic School Segregation: Evidence From a Policy Reform

Anna Makles and Schneider Kerstin
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Schneider Kerstin: University of Wuppertal,Wuppertal, Germany

German Economic Review, 2015, vol. 16, issue 2, 203-225

Abstract: By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment areas in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase 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 has not been affected by the policy reform.

Keywords: School catchment areas; ethnic segregation; school choice; policy reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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