The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores

By Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Di Rocco. Social Science Research Network, 2013

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We use aggregate PISA data for 19 countries over the period 2000–2009 to study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives. We find evidence of a negative and statistically significant relationship. The size of the estimated effect is small: doubling the share of immigrant pupils in secondary schools from its current sample average of 4.2–8.4 percent would reduce the test score of natives by 1–3.4 percent, depending on the selected group of natives. There is also evidence that – conditional on the average share of immigrant pupils – reducing the dispersion of this share between schools has small positive effects on the test scores of natives. Whether these findings can be generalized to a larger sample of countries is an open question that we leave to future research.

Subfields: Education, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Non-Native Speakers of English in the Classroom: What are the Effects on Pupil Performance? (2012, unknown): “Following Hoxby (2000), there is now a number of studies in the educational literature using this type of approach (e.g. Ammermuller and Pischke, 2009; Bifulco et al. 2011; Black et al. 2010; Brunello and Rocco, 2011; Gould et al. 2009; Lavy and Schlosser, 2011, Ohinata and van Ours, 2013).”