Immigrant and Native Children’s Cognitive Outcomes and the Effect of Ethnic Concentration in Danish Schools
Written by: Peter Jensen and Astrid Würtz Rasmussen
This paper uses a unique and very rich PISA dataset from Denmark to investigate how the ethnic concentration in a school influences cognitive outcomes for both immigrant and native Danish children.
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