Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation
研究了低技能移民涌入美国是否通过降低本地居民对公立学校的需求，加剧了移民的居住隔离，发现1970-2000年间加州每增加10名低英语水平的西班牙裔学生，学区平均流失超过14个非西班牙裔有孩家庭。
We examine whether low-skilled immigration to the United States has contributed to immigrants' residential isolation by reducing native demand for public schools. We address endogeneity in school demographics using established Mexican settlement patterns in California and use a comparison group to account for immigration's broader effects. We estimate that between 1970 and 2000, the average California school district lost more than 14 non-Hispanic households with children to other districts in its metropolitan area for every 10 additional households enrolling low-English Hispanics in its public schools. By disproportionately isolating children, the native reaction to immigration may have longer-run consequences than previously thought.