Integrating Minorities in the Classroom: The Role of Students, Parents, and Teachers
Alexandra de Gendre,
Krzysztof Karbownik,
Nicolas Salamanca and
Yves Zenou
No 19041, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
Abstract:
We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and teachers are linked to the presence of minorities in the classroom. We then test the key implications of this model using rich survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to minority peers decreases student effort, parental investments, and teacher engagement and it results in lower student test scores. Observables correlated with minority status explain less than a third of the reduced-form test score effect while over a third can be descriptively attributed to endogenous responses of the agents.
Keywords: Minorities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-05
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