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Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program.

  • Aggregate data on schools strongly suggest the impact of Metco long-running desegregation program is largely a composition effect.
  • Micro data show some evidence of an effect of Metco on the scores of minority 3rd graders in Reading and Language.
  • School level (District) results: Found a negative relationship between fraction METCO (fraction of students on desegregation program) and test scores. Found no association between fraction METCO and score for Whites.
  • School Level (Brookline) results : No effect of METCO students on full sample of non- METCO students.
  • No negative effect of increasing the fraction minority on most students.
  • Negative effects on non-METCO minority are modest and short lived (Reading and Language Arts for Black third graders).
  • Finds no peer effects of METCO program on non-METCO students.
  • No minority composition effect on Non-Black, Non- METCO students. Minimal negative effects on minority Non-METCO students.
  • Any peer effects from Metco are modest and short-lived.
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