Immigrant Concentration in Schools

Peer Pressures in Place

Bibliographic Data

ID2235250
AuthorsH C Boado (Fundación Juan March, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume23
Issue3
Pages341-356
Publication date2007-03-27
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0266-7215 • E-ISSN: 1468-2672
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/esr/jcm008
OpenAlexW2110018494
LanguageEN
Citations received23
References cited13

This article explores the existence of negative peer pressures resulting from the concentration of foreigners in French lower secondary schools. Using three indicators of school attainment (number of years spent in lower secondary education, grades in 4th and 3rd year, and track selection in upper secondary), the article concludes that the results of the empirical analysis are sensitive to the assumptions and methods used. If we assume that the distribution of foreigners across social spaces is a random and exogenous process, then the multivariate analyses confirm negative peer effects. If, on the contrary, we consider it the result of prior sorting mechanisms of individuals accross school districts, the evidence indicates that the concentration of foreigners has no statistically significant impact on attainment.

Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Immigration · Multivariate statistics · Peer effects · Peer review · Political science · Population · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Sorting · Statistics · Status attainment · Computer Science · Demography · Law · Mathematics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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