Working Paper: CEPR ID: DP18292
Authors: Rafiq Friperson; Hessel Oosterbeek; Bas van der Klaauw
Abstract: We use Dutch register data to document the understudied phenomenon of teacher segregation. We show that teachers in primary and secondary schools in the four largest cities of the country - Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht - are segregated in terms of their migration and social backgrounds. While segregation by social background is not much higher than what would be expected under random teacher-school assignment, segregation by migration background is substantial even after accounting for randomness. Relating schools' teacher composition to their student composition, we find in most cases that schools with a high proportion of teachers from a particular background tend to have a high proportion of students from that same background.
Keywords: segregation
JEL Codes: I24
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| Teacher migration background segregation (J61) | Teacher segregation (J79) |
| Teacher social background segregation (I24) | Teacher segregation (J79) |
| Teacher migration background segregation (J61) | Correlation between teacher and student backgrounds (I24) |
| Residential patterns (R23) | Teacher and student background correlation (A21) |