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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP15528
	DP15528 Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model
	Vincent Boucher; Michael Vlassopoulos; Jackline Wahba; Yves Zenou
发表日期	2020-12-07
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	We study the social integration of ethnic minority children in the context of an early childhood program conducted in Turkey aimed at preparing 5-year-old native and Syrian refugee children for primary school. We randomly assign children to groups with varying ethnic composition and find that exposure to children of the other ethnicity leads to an increase in the formation of interethnic friendships, especially for Turkish children. We also find that the Turkish language skills of Syrian children are better developed in classes with a larger presence of Turkish children. We then develop a model of friendship formation with two key mechanisms: preference bias and congestion in the friendship formation process. Structural estimation of the model suggests that interethnic exposure reduces the share of own-ethnicity friends (homophily) and has anon-monotonic effect on the propensity to form own-ethnicity friendships beyond what would be expected given the size of the group (inbreeding homophily). Counterfactual analysis indicates that improvement in the language skills of Syrian children can offset more than half of the effect that ethnic bias has on friendship formation patterns. Finally, we find that for Syrian children exposure to Turkish children in the pre-school program has a long-term effect on primary school absenteeism
主题	Development Economics
关键词	Refugees Social cohesion Contact theory Social Networks
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp15528-1
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/544530
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Vincent Boucher,Michael Vlassopoulos,Jackline Wahba,et al. DP15528 Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model. 2020.