The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores

Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco

No 5479, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi-country data from PISA. We find evidence of a negative and statistically significant relationship. The size of the estimated effect is small: doubling the share of immigrant pupils in secondary schools from its current sample average of 4.8 percent to close to 10 percent would reduce the test score of natives by 1.32 to 1.96 percent, depending on the selected group of natives. There is also evidence that – conditional on the average share of immigrant pupils – reducing the dispersion of this share between schools has small positive effects on the test scores of natives.

Keywords: natives; school performance; immigrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2011-02
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Published - published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 234-246

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