Peer Effects, Social Multipliers and Migrants at School: An International Comparison

25 Pages Posted: 16 Jun 2006

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Horst Entorf

Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Martina Lauk

Technical University of Darmstadt - Department of Economics

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Date Written: March 21, 2006

Abstract

This article analyses the school performance of migrants dependent on peer groups in different international schooling environments. Using data from the international OECD PISA test, we consider social interaction within and between groups of natives and migrants. Results based on social multipliers (Glaeser et al. 2000, 2003) suggest that both native-to-native and migrant-to-migrant peer effects are higher in ability-differencing school systems than in comprehensive schools. Thus, non-comprehensive school systems seem to magnify the prevailing educational inequality between students with a low parental socioeconomic migration background and children from more privileged families.

Keywords: social interaction, peer effects, social multipliers, schooling systems, PISA

JEL Classification: I21

Suggested Citation

Entorf, Horst and Lauk, Martina, Peer Effects, Social Multipliers and Migrants at School: An International Comparison (March 21, 2006). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=908844 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.908844

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