Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Urban Economics Année : 2021

Academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners: Evidence from a busing program

Anna Piil Damm
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Elena Mattana
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Helena Skyt Nielsen
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We exploit exogenous variation from a school desegregation policy to investigate the determinants of academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners. The policy buses some school starters with low host-country language proficiency from schools with many dual language learners, higher total budget for dual language learning and higher per-pupil spending to schools with fewer dual language learners but lower total budget for dual language learning and per-pupil spending. Assignment to busing is exogenous conditional on three observed individual characteristics, hence we compare bused and non-bused pupils conditional on these characteristics. We find that assignment to forced busing has a negative effect on the academic performance and wellbeing of dual language learners, which is at odds with findings for school desegregation in the US.

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hal-04962273 , version 1 (22-02-2025)

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Anna Piil Damm, Elena Mattana, Helena Skyt Nielsen, Benedicte Rouland. Academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners: Evidence from a busing program. Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 126 (1), pp.103358. ⟨10.1016/j.jue.2021.103358⟩. ⟨hal-04962273⟩
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