High School Choices by Immigrant Students in Italy: Evidence from Administrative Data

Author:

Aktaş Koray1,Argentin Gianluca2,Barbetta Gian Paolo3,Colombo Luca V.A.3,Barbieri Gianna4

Affiliation:

1. Department of Economics, Management and Statistics , Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Center for European Studies (CefES) , Milan , Italy

2. Department of Sociology and Social Research , Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca , Milan , Italy

3. Department of Economics of Finance , Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , Milan , Italy

4. Direzione Generale per i Contratti, Gli Acquisti e per i Sistemi Informativi e la Statistica, MIUR , Rome , Italy

Abstract

Abstract We investigate the educational choices of first- and second-generation immigrant students at the transition between lower-secondary school and high school by exploiting a large longitudinal dataset of about 50,000 students in Italy. We find that immigrant students are less likely to choose challenging academic track high schools compared with their Italian counterparts, after controlling for household characteristics, school fixed effects, and students’ performance. We show that systematic differences in teachers’ feedback received by the two groups of students are an important driver of the observed differences in educational choices by immigrant and native students. In addition, after controlling for observable characteristics, we find that immigrant students are more likely to be formally advised by their teachers to choose vocational or technical high schools rather than academic tracks, especially in the case of female students, reflecting a discrimination bias that has not previously been emphasized in the literature. This suggests the role for a new dimension of policy intervention aimed at reducing the possibility of teachers’ induced discrimination based on implicit stereotypes.

Funder

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),Economics and Econometrics

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