Policy Implications of Limiting Immigrant Concentration in Danish Public Schools

  • The average effect of immigrant concentration on students’ educational outcome is negative and significant.
  • The average peer group effect is relatively weak in magnitude, which is due to a weak negative marginal effect of immigrant concentration on student educational outcome, until the immigrant concentration exceeds 50 percent
  • The effect of immigrant concentration on educational outcome is almost twice as large for immigrant students as for native Danish students, confirming the existence of asymmetric peer effects.
  • There is a tipping point at which school percentage of immigrants significantly affects educational outcomes, at around 50% immigrant concentration.