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Title: The Impacts of Asian Students on Scholastic Achievement: Evidence from Primary Schools in New York City

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: This paper examines the effects of Asian students on the academic performance of their non-Asian peers in New York City public primary schools. We use plausibly exogenous variation in the share of Asian students across cohorts and schools stemming from a fertility shock among Asian population in the Chinese year of the Dragon, which is larger in neighborhoods with historically large Chinese population. We find that a one percentage point increase in the share of Asian students reduces math and ELA test scores of non-Asian students by around 0.03 and 0.05 standard deviations. The negative effects are largest for black and Hispanic students and in schools where non-Asian student population is ethnically/racially more heterogeneous. We find no evidence of changes in congestion, attrition, teaching resources, or class size generating these effects, leading us to conclude that peer influence between students and responses of teachers to the increasing share of Asian students are the most plausible mechanisms explaining our results.

Url: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/einio/Asian_Students_dEste_Einio_April2018.pdf

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Authors: D’Este, Rocco; Einio, Elias

Publisher: University of Sussex

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Topics: Education, Race and Ethnicity

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