Refugees and 'Native Flight' from Public to Private Schools

Semih Tumen

No 12235, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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, 0.16 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)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2019-03
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Published - published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 181, 154-159

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