The Effect of Immigrant on Natives' School Achievement : Does Length of Stay in the Host Country Matter?

Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-m...

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Main Author:	Bossavie, Laurent
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	IMMIGRATION EDUCATION PEER EFFECTS REFUGEES PRIMARY EDUCATION STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/702871529934288951/The-effect-of-immigrant-concentration-at-school-on-natives-achievement-does-length-of-stay-in-the-host-country-matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29944

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spelling	okr-10986-299442021-06-14T10:07:27Z The Effect of Immigrant on Natives' School Achievement : Does Length of Stay in the Host Country Matter? Bossavie, Laurent IMMIGRATION EDUCATION PEER EFFECTS REFUGEES PRIMARY EDUCATION STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects by duration of stay of immigrant classmates. To identify treatment effects, it uses cohort-by-cohort deviations in immigrant concentration within schools combined with attractive features of the Dutch school system. Overall, the paper finds no effect of the concentration of immigrant students on natives' test scores. However, although immigrant students who have been in the country for some time have virtually no effect on natives, the analysis finds a small negative effect of recent immigrants in the classroom on natives' test scores. This effect significant only for language test scores, but insignificant for mathematics test scores. When significant, effect sizes are quite small compared to other educational interventions and classroom peer effects estimated in other contexts. 2018-06-28T15:21:34Z 2018-06-28T15:21:34Z 2018-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/702871529934288951/The-effect-of-immigrant-concentration-at-school-on-natives-achievement-does-length-of-stay-in-the-host-country-matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29944 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8492 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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description	Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects by duration of stay of immigrant classmates. To identify treatment effects, it uses cohort-by-cohort deviations in immigrant concentration within schools combined with attractive features of the Dutch school system. Overall, the paper finds no effect of the concentration of immigrant students on natives' test scores. However, although immigrant students who have been in the country for some time have virtually no effect on natives, the analysis finds a small negative effect of recent immigrants in the classroom on natives' test scores. This effect significant only for language test scores, but insignificant for mathematics test scores. When significant, effect sizes are quite small compared to other educational interventions and classroom peer effects estimated in other contexts.
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author	Bossavie, Laurent
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title	The Effect of Immigrant on Natives' School Achievement : Does Length of Stay in the Host Country Matter?
title_short	The Effect of Immigrant on Natives' School Achievement : Does Length of Stay in the Host Country Matter?
title_full	The Effect of Immigrant on Natives' School Achievement : Does Length of Stay in the Host Country Matter?
title_fullStr	The Effect of Immigrant on Natives' School Achievement : Does Length of Stay in the Host Country Matter?
title_full_unstemmed	The Effect of Immigrant on Natives' School Achievement : Does Length of Stay in the Host Country Matter?
title_sort	effect of immigrant on natives' school achievement : does length of stay in the host country matter?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/702871529934288951/The-effect-of-immigrant-concentration-at-school-on-natives-achievement-does-length-of-stay-in-the-host-country-matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29944
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The Effect of Immigrant on Natives' School Achievement : Does Length of Stay in the Host Country Matter?

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