Refugees and ‘native flight’ from public to private schools

Semih Tumen

Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 181, issue C, 154-159

Abstract: Native children switch from public to private primary schools in response to increased refugee concentration in the Turkish public education system. 10 percentage-point increase in refugee-to-population ratio generates, on average, 0.12 percentage-point increase in private primary school enrollment. This roughly corresponds to 1 native child switching to private education for every 31.6 refugee children enrolled in public schools—weaker than the typical estimates in the literature.

Keywords: Public vs private primary education; School choice; Immigration; Refugees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I21 I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.05.030

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