This pamphlet uses a unique and very rich dataset from the Programme for International Student Assessment to investigate how ethnic concentration in school influences cognitive outcomes for both immigrant and native Danish children. The paper finds that immigrant children from non-Western countries have lower reading test scores than native Danish children, and that children in schools with a high ethnic concentration score significantly lower in the reading test than children in schools with a low ethnic concentration. ...
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This pamphlet uses a unique and very rich dataset from the Programme for International Student Assessment to investigate how ethnic concentration in school influences cognitive outcomes for both immigrant and native Danish children. The paper finds that immigrant children from non-Western countries have lower reading test scores than native Danish children, and that children in schools with a high ethnic concentration score significantly lower in the reading test than children in schools with a low ethnic concentration. These results are fairly robust across estimation methods. Immigrant children's lower cognitive outcome is related to the ethnic concentration in the schools they attend and their relatively low socioeconomic status. Instrumenting for ethnic concentration reveals that even after taking into consideration that individuals may sort across neighborhoods, ethnic concentration in the school and the child's own ethnicity are still important factors in determining the chil
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New. In order to determine the learning outcomes for young immigrants from their attendance at Danish primary and lower secondary school, the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit contacted the Danish PISA Consortium to arrange a PISA survey. This book analyses school-pupils' performance, including the performance of pupils from non-Western backgrounds. Num Pages: 48 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFSL; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 167 x 6. Weight in Grams: 108. 2008. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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