TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Entorf, Horst
AU  - Lauk, Martina
        TI  - Peer Effects, Social Multipliers and Migrants at School: An International Comparison
        PY  - 2006/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2182
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2182
        AB  - This article analyses the school performance of migrants dependent on peer groups in different international schooling environments. Using data from the international OECD PISA test, we consider social interaction within and between groups of natives and migrants. Results based on social multipliers (Glaeser et al. 2000, 2003) suggest that both native-to-native and migrant-to-migrant peer effects are higher in ability-differencing school systems than in comprehensive schools. Thus, non-comprehensive school systems seem to magnify the already existing educational inequality between students with a low parental socioeconomic migration background and children from more privileged families. Students with a migration background and a disadvantageous parental status would benefit from higher diversity within schools.
        KW  - parental socioeconomic background
KW  - peer effects
KW  - migration
KW  - education
KW  - school systems
KW  - social multipliers
        ER  -