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Quantile Peer Effects of Immigrant Children at Primary Schools
Author(s) -
Ohinata Asako,
Ours Jan C.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/labr.12076
Subject(s) - immigration , quantile , quantile regression , peer effects , distribution (mathematics) , demographic economics , test (biology) , psychology , econometrics , economics , political science , social psychology , mathematics , biology , mathematical analysis , paleontology , law
We analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational performance of native Dutch children in primary schools. Using quantile regressions, our paper studies these peer effects at different parts of the test score distribution of native children. After accounting for selectivity in the allocation of immigrant students across schools, we find no evidence for the existence of negative peer effects of immigrant children, either at the median or at other parts of the distribution.