Tommaso Frattini|Elena Meschi
The effect of immigrant peers in vocational schools
Centre for Economic Policy Research|University of Milan|Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano|Ca' Foscari University of Venice
paper provides new evidence presence immigrant peers classroom affects native student achievement analysis based longitudinal administrative data two cohorts vocational training students italys largest region vocational training institutions provide ideal setting studying effects attract disproportionately high shares immigrants also lowest ability native students adopt value added model exploit withinschool variation within across cohorts identification results show small negative average effects maths test scores larger low ability native students strongly nonlinear observable classes high top 20 immigrant concentration outcomes driven classes high average linguistic distance immigrants natives apparent additional role played ethnic diversity