How do restrictive zoning and parental choices impact social diversity in schools?

Béatrice Boutchenik, Pauline Givord and Olivier Monso ()
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Béatrice Boutchenik: INSEE - Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)
Olivier Monso: OSC - Observatoire sociologique du changement (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, DEPP - Direction de l'évaluation, de la prospective et de la performance - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche

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Abstract: This paper provides a new method for decomposing segregation indices depending on two distinct set of unities. This method is applied to analyse how restrictive zoning and parental school choices impact social diversity in French middle schools. Using an exhaustive geolocalized dataset on three urban areas, segregation indices at the school level are decomposed into contributions of residential segregation and of circumvention. According to the results, for the three analysed urban areas, school choice accounts for one half of the social segregation across middle schools in Paris, and more than one third in the urban areas of Bordeaux and Clermond-Ferrand. This mostly stems from the fact that the social mix in "left behind" public schools is reduced as the parents who opt out of their neighborhood school for a private one are often the most advantaged ones locally.

Keywords: Social diversity; School choice; Segregation indices; Entropy Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-02-01
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