Immigrant background peer effects in Italian schools

Contini Dalit ()
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Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers from University of Turin

Abstract: This article provides an empirical assessment of the effect of immigrant concentration on student learning in Italian primary and lower secondary schools, using the data of a standardized learning assessment administered in 2010 to the entire student population of selected grades at the national level. Identification is accomplished by exploiting the within-school random variability observed in the share of immigrant students across classes. I estimate peer effects allowing for heterogeneous effects between native and immigrant background children, and among natives, between children of different socio-economic status. The main finding is that the proportion of immigrant students has a weak effect on child learning outcomes, and that this effect is somewhat larger for children from disadvantaged backgrounds (immigrants and low socio-economic status).

Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2011-12
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