The Coevolution of Segregation, Polarized Beliefs, and Discrimination: The Case of Private versus State Education

Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny

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“…Nonetheless, persistent preferences/pedagogical beliefs relative to what constitutes the optimal placement of students (between and within-schools) from both parents and schools' authorities may also explain such time consistency of segregation patterns. Indeed, Levy & Razin's (2017) theoretical framework predicts, in particular, the possibility of persistent between-school segregation patterns due to parents' (possibly incorrect) beliefs. In this view, the case of 5 th to 9 th graders with differing academic abilities subject to a somewhat more uneven placement withinschools should again be highlighted.…”

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“…Agents such as school authorities and parents likely try to optimally place them according to their specific preferences and goals, possibly to reap the benefits and avoid the costs from exposure to certain types of peers. Still on this topic, Levy & Razin (2017) present a theoretical model showing that due to a learning failure while in the labor market, repeating generations of parents may persist with different beliefs regarding which the best school might be (the most productivity-enhancing school) to send their children to, thus perpetuating segregation, even if there are no real differences between schools in terms of the value added accrued to students (i.e. to their offspring, the next generation of parents).…”

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Student Segregation Across and Within Schools - The Case of the Portuguese Public School System

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We provide the most comprehensive description of student segregation in the Portuguese public school system to date, a system that exhibits interesting institutional features potentially linked with the student segregation issue (e.g. school catchment areas, course tracking, and almost no central regulations regarding class composition). The analysis uses the entire regular student population enrolled in all public schools of continental Portugal (grades 1 to 12, from 2006/07 to 2016/17). Looking at three segregation dimensionseconomic, academic, and immigrantat both between and within-school levels, and using a novel dissimilarity index recently proposed in the literature aimed at better capturing systematic segregation, we find that segregation, on median, is mild, across time, grades, and regions. The most important exception is the case of within-school academic segregation. During upper-secondary schooling, in particular, when students are divided across classes according to own course-tracking decisions, it doubles. Moreover, within-school academic segregation estimates have the largest interquartile ranges, within a given year, grade, or region, pointing to heterogeneity in the way different schools set up classes internally in terms of students' academic characteristics. Academic and economic segregation are positively associated, at both between and within school levels. The Portuguese segregation insights are also compared to those from other geographies. and Castelo Branco; "north" -Viana do Castelo, Braga, Vila Real, Bragança, Guarda, Viseu, and Aveiro.

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“…50 Non-strategic models of selection/correlation neglect include, e.g., Streufert (2000); DeMarzo, Vayanos, and Zwiebel (2003); Glaeser and Sunstein (2009); Ortoleva and Snowberg (2015); Levy and Razin (2015); Ellis and Piccione (2017).…”

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Dispersed Behavior and Perceptions in Assortative Societies

Frick¹,

Iijima²,

Ishii³

2019

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We take an equilibrium-based approach to study the interplay between behavior and misperceptions in coordination games with assortative interactions. Our focus is assortativity neglect, where agents fail to take into account the extent of assortativity in society. We show, first, that assortativity neglect amplifies action dispersion, both in fixed societies and by exacerbating the effect of social changes. Second, unlike other misperceptions, assortativity neglect is a misperception that agents can rationalize in any true environment. Finally, assortativity neglect provides a lens through which to understand how empirically documented misperceptions about distributions of population characteristics (e.g., income inequality) vary across societies.

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Dispersed Behavior and Perceptions in Assortative Societies

Frick¹,

Iijima²,

Ishii

2018

SSRN Journal

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We take an equilibrium-based approach to study the interplay between behavior and misperceptions in coordination games with assortative interactions. Our focus is assortativity neglect, where agents fail to take into account the extent of assortativity in society.We show, first, that assortativity neglect amplifies action dispersion, both in fixed societies and by exacerbating the effect of social changes. Second, unlike other misperceptions, assortativity neglect is a misperception that agents can rationalize in any true environment.Finally, assortativity neglect provides a lens through which to understand how empirically documented misperceptions about distributions of population characteristics (e.g., income inequality) vary across societies.

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The Coevolution of Segregation, Polarized Beliefs, and Discrimination: The Case of Private versus State Education

Cited by 16 publications

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Student Segregation Across and Within Schools - The Case of the Portuguese Public School System

Student Segregation Across and Within Schools - The Case of the Portuguese Public School System

Dispersed Behavior and Perceptions in Assortative Societies

Dispersed Behavior and Perceptions in Assortative Societies

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