ABSTRACT

A common criticisms of school choice programs is that, instead of improving student achievement, they would increase school segregation. Parents may use different criteria to choose a school, such as proximity, school quality, or the school's ethnic/racial composition. As a result, the system would be segregated based on the parent's preferences. This research examines the school preferences of indigenous parents and whether ethnic discrimination influences their decision-making process. Longitudinal national-level data from Chile were analyzed using OLS with fixed effects. The results show that indigenous students, particularly those who have suffered ethnic discrimination in middle school, prefer high schools with a higher percentage of indigenous students. Furthermore, it was found that the level of acts of discrimination occurring in middle schools increases as the percentage of indigenous students rises. However, when the proportion of indigenous and non-indigenous students is similar, indigenous students are less likely to face discrimination.

摘要

对择校计划的一个普遍批评是，它们不会提高学生的成绩，反而会加剧学校隔离。家长可以使用不同的标准来选择学校，例如距离、学校质量或学校的民族/种族构成。因此，系统将根据父母的偏好进行隔离。本研究调查了土著父母的学校偏好以及种族歧视是否影响他们的决策过程。使用具有固定效应的 OLS 分析来自智利的纵向国家级数据。结果显示，原住民学生，尤其是在中学曾遭受种族歧视的学生，更喜欢原住民学生比例较高的高中。此外，结果发现，随着土著学生比例的增加，中学中发生的歧视行为也随之增加。然而，当原住民和非原住民学生的比例相似时，原住民学生面临歧视的可能性较小。