The desegregating effect of school tracking
This paper makes the following point: “detracking” schools, that is preventing them from allocating students to classes according to their ability, may lead to an increase in income residential segregation. It does so in a simple model where households care about the school peer group of their child...
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| author | Fraja, Gianni De Martínez-Mora, Francisco |
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| description | This paper makes the following point: “detracking” schools, that is preventing them from allocating students to classes according to their ability, may lead to an increase in income residential segregation. It does so in a simple model where households care about the school peer group of their children. If ability and income are positively correlated, tracking implies that some high income households face the choice of either living in the areas where most of the other high income households live and having their child assigned to the low track, or instead living in lower income neighbourhoods where their child would be in the high track. Under mild conditions, tracking leads to an equilibrium with partial income desegregation where perfect income segregation would be the only stable outcome without tracking. |
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| spelling | nottingham-298082020-05-04T16:41:21Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29808/ The desegregating effect of school tracking Fraja, Gianni De Martínez-Mora, Francisco This paper makes the following point: “detracking” schools, that is preventing them from allocating students to classes according to their ability, may lead to an increase in income residential segregation. It does so in a simple model where households care about the school peer group of their children. If ability and income are positively correlated, tracking implies that some high income households face the choice of either living in the areas where most of the other high income households live and having their child assigned to the low track, or instead living in lower income neighbourhoods where their child would be in the high track. Under mild conditions, tracking leads to an equilibrium with partial income desegregation where perfect income segregation would be the only stable outcome without tracking. Elsevier 2014-01-23 Article PeerReviewed Fraja, Gianni De and Martínez-Mora, Francisco (2014) The desegregating effect of school tracking. Journal of Urban Economics, 80 . pp. 164-177. ISSN 0094-1190 Tracking School Selection Income Segregation School Choice Tiebout http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119014000059 doi:10.1016/j.jue.2014.01.001 doi:10.1016/j.jue.2014.01.001 |
| spellingShingle | Tracking School Selection Income Segregation School Choice Tiebout Fraja, Gianni De Martínez-Mora, Francisco The desegregating effect of school tracking |
| title | The desegregating effect of school tracking |
| title_full | The desegregating effect of school tracking |
| title_fullStr | The desegregating effect of school tracking |
| title_full_unstemmed | The desegregating effect of school tracking |
| title_short | The desegregating effect of school tracking |
| title_sort | desegregating effect of school tracking |
| topic | Tracking School Selection Income Segregation School Choice Tiebout |
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