This article provides an empirical assessment of the effect of immigrant concentration on student learning in Italian primary and lower secondary schools, using the data of a standardized learning assessment, administered in 2010 to the entire student population of selected grades at the national level. Identification is accomplished by exploiting the within-school random variability observed between classes in the share of immigrant students. I estimate peer effects allowing for heterogeneous effects between native and immigrant background children, and among natives, between children of different socio-economic status. The main finding is that the proportion of immigrant students has a weak effect on child learning outcomes, and that this effect is somewhat larger for children from disadvantaged backgrounds (immigrants and low socio-economic status).

Immigrant background peer effects in Italian schools

CONTINI, Dalit
2011-01-01

Abstract

This article provides an empirical assessment of the effect of immigrant concentration on student learning in Italian primary and lower secondary schools, using the data of a standardized learning assessment, administered in 2010 to the entire student population of selected grades at the national level. Identification is accomplished by exploiting the within-school random variability observed between classes in the share of immigrant students. I estimate peer effects allowing for heterogeneous effects between native and immigrant background children, and among natives, between children of different socio-economic status. The main finding is that the proportion of immigrant students has a weak effect on child learning outcomes, and that this effect is somewhat larger for children from disadvantaged backgrounds (immigrants and low socio-economic status).
2011
http://www.de.unito.it/web/member/segreteria/WP/2011/14_WP_Contini.pdf
educational inequalities; learning outcomes; immigrant children; peer effects
Dalit Contini
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