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Student Mobility and Sorting of Students

Bukowski, Paweł; (2020) Student Mobility and Sorting of Students. Gospodarka Narodowa , 303 (3) pp. 5-34. 10.33119/gn/125587. Green open access

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Abstract

This study investigates whether improving student mobility leads to greater sorting of students between schools and classes. I isolate an exogenous change in student mobility using the two-stage design of the Polish comprehensive education system and differences in school density across geographic areas. I construct a novel measure of student homogeneity based on Raven’s Progressive Matrix test score. One finding is that higher mobility leads to greater sorting of students between schools. Another, more novel, result shows that mobility also leads to higher sorting within a school (across classes). I provide suggestive evidence that demand for peer quality among students motivates school principals to create selective tracks within comprehensive schools.

Type: Article
Title: Student Mobility and Sorting of Students
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.33119/gn/125587
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.33119/GN/125587
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author 2022. Original content in this paper is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: student mobility, sorting, equality of opportunity, Poland
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10156301
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