ETHNICITY AND EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMPULSORY SCHOOLING

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dustmann, Christian; Machin, Stephen; Schoenberg, Uta
• 署名单位: University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02377.x
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: F272-F297
• 关键词: wage gap; immigrants

摘要

This article documents that at the start of school, pupils from most ethnic groups substantially lag behind White British pupils. However, these gaps decline for all groups throughout compulsory schooling. Language is the single most important factor why ethnic minority pupils improve relative to White British pupils. Poverty, in contrast, does not contribute to the catch-up. Our results also suggest the possibility that the greater than average progress of ethnic minority pupils in schools with more poor pupils may partly be related to teacher incentives to concentrate attention on particular pupils, generated by the publication of school league tables.