%0 Report %A Tumen, Semih %T Refugees and 'Native Flight' from Public to Private Schools %D 2019 %8 2019 Mar %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 12235 %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12235 %X Native children switch from public to private primary schools in response to increased refugee concentration in the Turkish public education system. 10 percentage-point increase in refugee-to-population ratio generates, on average, 0.16 percentage-point increase in private primary school enrollment. This roughly corresponds to 1 native child switching to private education for every 31.6 refugee children enrolled in public schools — weaker than the typical estimates in the literature. %K public vs private primary education %K school choice %K immigration %K refugees