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School and class segregation in Portugal
Firmino, João; Catela Nunes, Luís; de Almeida, Sílvia; Batista, SusanaWe examine segregation of low-achieving, immigrant, and low-socioeconomic status students (grades 1–12), across 5,000 Portuguese public schools in all 278 mainland municipalities, over a decade (2006/07-2016/17). The density-corrected dissimilarity index is used to assess school-segregation within municipalities and class-segregation within schools, the latter a segregation dimension under-explored in the liter...
Students with an immigrant background in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area: Evidence...
de Almeida, Sílvia; Firmino, João; Gabriel, José Mesquita; Hortas, Maria João; Nunes, Luís CatelaThis paper focuses on the territorial distribution of students, in Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA), with an immigrant background enrolling in the 3rd cycle of basic education in Portugal and on the differences in the academic performance of students attending the last year of this cycle, considering their birthplace. Differences are examined by estimating several linear regression models using as dependent varia...
Students with an immigrant background in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
de Almeida, Sílvia; Firmino, João; Mesquita Gabriel, José; Hortas, Maria João; Catela Nunes, LuísThis paper focuses on the territorial distribution of students, in Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA), with an immigrant background enrolling in the 3rd cycle of basic education in Portugal and on the differences in the academic performance of students attending the last year of this cycle, considering their birthplace. Differences are examined by estimating several linear regression models using as dependent varia...
Students with an immigrant background in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Evidence...
Almeida, Sílvia de; Firmino, João; Mesquita Gabriel, José; Hortas, Maria João; Nunes, Luís CatelaThis paper focuses on the territorial distribution of students, in Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA), with an immigrant background enrolling in the 3rd cycle of basic education in Portugal and on the differences in the academic performance of students attending the last year of this cycle, considering their birthplace. Differences are examined by estimating several linear regression models using as dependent varia...
Academic performance and territorial patterns of students with an immigrant bac...
Almeida, Sílvia de; Firmino, João; Mesquita, José; Hortas, Maria João; Nunes, Luís CatelaThis paper focuses on the territorial distribution of students with an immigrant background enrolled in the 3rd cycle of basic education in Portugal and on the differences in the academic performance of students enrolled in the last year of this cycle based on their birthplace and immigrant background when compared to their native peers in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. These differences are examined by estimati...
Student Segregation Across and Within Schools. The Case of the Portuguese Publi...
Firmino, João; Nunes, Luis Catela; Almeida, Sílvia de; Batista, SusanaWe 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 pu...
Class Composition and Student Achievement: Evidence from Portugal
Firmino, João; Catela Nunes, Luis; Balcão Reis, Ana; Seabra, CarmoWe analyze the effects of several class compositional dimensions on individual student achievement. We make use of a rich dataset that allows tackling major endogeneity concerns stemming from non-random allocation of students between and within schools. We find that increasing the percentage of high achievers in a 6th grade class has a negative effect on student performance, while in a 9th grade class the effec...