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Author-Name: Witte K. de
Author-Name: Ong C. 
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Title: School choice, segregation, and forced school closure
Abstract:  We exploit the forced closure of three segregated primary schools in  Amsterdam to establish the determinants of school choice of ethnic  minority pupils. The schools were closed due to mismanagement and poor  assessment from the Education Inspectorate. Most of the affected  students were of socially disadvantaged and non-western migrant  background. Our analysis contrasts the respective school choice  decisions of the early movers who had voluntarily changed schools  within two years before the forced closure and the forced movers who  had to move to other schools after the closure. Using a conditional  logit model and a nested logit framework, we find that i students of  segregated schools tend to re-concentrate into the same schools rather  than disperse into different schools; ii primary school choice is  nested upon school type; and iii the forced movers prefer schools  with more peers of own non-western and low socioeconomic background,  less peer truancy, and shorter residence-to-school distance.     Keywords School choice; Ethnic segregation; School closure; School  mobility, Nested logi
Keywords: Education and Research Institutions: General; Education: Government Policy; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Government Policy; 
Classification-JEL: I20; I28; R28; .
Series:  Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2014
Number: 008
File-URL: http://pub.maastrichtuniversity.nl/4ffce6e0-8f66-4143-9a2c-5cd771c03877
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File-Size: 362441
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2014008