Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/169415 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 130
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht
Abstract: 
We examine the educational spillover effects of migrant students on local students’ academic achievement in public middle schools in urban China. The identification of peer effects relies on idiosyncratic variation in the proportion of migrant students across classes within schools. We find that the proportion of migrant students in each class has a small, and positive, effect on local students’ test scores in Chinese, but has no significant effect on math and English test scores. We also find considerable evidence of heterogeneity in the effects of the proportion of students in the class on local students’ test scores across subsamples. Local students toward the bottom of the achievement distribution, local students enrolled in small classes and local students enrolled in lower-ranked schools benefit most in terms of test scores from having a higher proportion of migrant students in their class. Our findings have important policy implications for the debate in China about the inclusion of migrant students in urban schools, and for the assignment of educational resources across schools.
Subjects: 
migrant student
peer effects
academic achievement
China
JEL: 
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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