Andersen, Simon Calmar, & Thomsen, Mette Kjaergaard
Researchers: Mette Kjaergaard ThomsenSimon Calmar Andersen
University Affiliation: Aarhus University
Email: simon@ps.au.dk
Research Question:
Would reallocating immigrant students improve total student achievement and/or benefit the educational outcome of immigrant students?
Published: 1
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: Scandinavian Political Studies
Journal Entry: Vol. 34, No. 1, Pp. 27-52
Year: 2011
Findings:
- 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.