VERSION: November 2021 EdWorkingPaper No. 21-495 Do Refugee Students Affect the Academic Achievement of Peers? Evidence from a Large Urban School District Policy debate on refugee resettlement focuses on perceived adverse effects on local communities, with sparse credible evidence to ascertain its impact. This paper examines whether attending school with refugees affects the academic outcomes of non-refugee students. Leveraging variation in the share of refugees within schools and across grades, I find that increasing the share of grade-level refugees by 1 pp results in a 0.01 sd increase in average math scores. While I find no effect on average English Language Arts scores, using nonlinear-in-means specifications I estimate negative spillovers in ELA performance among low-achieving students and positive spillovers among high-achieving students. Suggested citation: Morales, Camila . (2021). Do Refugee Students Affect the Academic Achievement of Peers? Evidence from a Large Urban School District. (EdWorkingPaper: 21-495). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://- doi.org/10.26300/p6bc-1q62 Camila Morales The University of Texas at Dallas
Do Refugee Students Affect the Academic Achievement of Peers? Evidence from a Large Urban School District
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