It's not all about the peers: Reintroducing school context to the school segregation literature

Borgen, Solveig Topstad

doi:10.1177/00016993231154128

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“…The model will estimate the effect of the marginal peer being an immigrant, not the effects of attending a school with, say, 5 percent versus 50 percent immigrants, a difference that will be netted out. Interestingly, Borgen (2024) finds no effect of attending an immigrant-dense school using school-by-program fixed effects and year-on-year variation in the proportion of immigrants. However, she does find an effect of attending an immigrant-dense school when she instead uses an admissions experiment, comparing students with the same GPA and school preferences who are admitted to different schools.…”

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“…A related example is the effect of attending immigrant-dense schools. In an important paper, Borgen (2024) notes that using school fixed effects to eliminate selection means that the question is narrowed to be about exclusively about peer effects, not school effects. A school fixed-effects model, where the variation in percent immigrant comes from different birth cohorts, is precisely an application of what we depict above.…”

Section: Neighborhood Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Caution on Sibling Comparisons in Studying Effects of the Rearing Environment

Engzell¹,

Hällsten²

2022

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Recent studies use family fixed effects to estimate the influence of parental characteristics on children, a practice we call the “discordant parenting design”. This approach is valid only if treatment effects are equal within and between families. This assumption is mostly not informed by relevant theory and, we argue, unlikely to hold in practice. In addition, within-family confounding, reverse causality, and selection into identification complicate the interpretation of these studies further. We discuss three applied examples—the effects of parenting, family income, and neighborhood context—and provide some general guidance. To avoid misinterpretation, researchers should have a strong grasp of the variance that enters into estimation, and not just the potential confounders that a given strategy is designed to deal with.

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Section: Neighborhood Effectsmentioning

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Section: Neighborhood Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Caution on Sibling Comparisons in Studying Effects of the Rearing Environment

Engzell¹,

Hällsten²

2022

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“…Trinidad et al, 2024 in this issue), advanced statistical designs (e.g. Borgen, 2024; Uggla et al, 2024 in this issue), or complex mixed methods research (e.g. Segersven, 2024 in this issue).…”

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New publication formats, call for special issues, and a new transparency and research data policy

Carleheden,

Toubøl

2024

Acta Sociologica

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Acta Sociologica has been an important outlet for sociological research of general interest from all subfields of the discipline during the past seven decades. While founded by scholars from the Nordics, today Acta is an international journal publishing articles from all around the globe on topics of general sociological interest. However, sociological research, scholarship, and publishing are not static. To accommodate new needs in dissemination of research and emerging new standards for research transparency, we havein collaboration with Sage and close consultation with the board of the Nordic Sociological Associationintroduced new publication formats, launched a running call for special issues, and adopted a new transparency and research data policy for quantitative research. These initiatives aim to ensure that Acta will continue to be an outlet for contributions from all corners of our diverse discipline. Below, we will briefly outline the new opportunities for publishing with Acta and the new policy on transparency and data sharing.

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A caution on sibling comparisons in studying effects of the rearing environment

Engzell,

Hällsten

2024

European Sociological Review

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Recent studies use sibling fixed effects to estimate the influence of the family environment on children, a practice we call the ‘discordant family design’. These studies suffer from a disconnect between the use of within-family variation, on the one hand, and relevant theories which mostly refer to variation between families on the other. In addition, reverse causality, within-family confounding, selection into identification, and measurement error complicate their interpretation further. We discuss three applied examples—the effects of parenting, family income, and neighbourhood context—and provide some general guidance. To avoid misinterpretation, researchers should have a strong grasp of the variance that enters into estimation, and not just the potential confounders a given strategy is designed to deal with.

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It's not all about the peers: Reintroducing school context to the school segregation literature

Cited by 3 publications

References 80 publications

A Caution on Sibling Comparisons in Studying Effects of the Rearing Environment

A Caution on Sibling Comparisons in Studying Effects of the Rearing Environment

New publication formats, call for special issues, and a new transparency and research data policy

A caution on sibling comparisons in studying effects of the rearing environment

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