White Flight from Asian Immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools / Leah Platt Boustan, Christine Cai, Tammy Tseng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boustan, Leah Platt.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Cai, Christine.

Tseng, Tammy.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31434.

NBER working paper series no. w31434

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.

Summary:

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the US but we know little about how Asian immigration has affected cities, neighborhoods and schools. This paper studies white flight from Asian arrivals in high-socioeconomic-status Californian school districts from 2000-2016 using initial settlement patterns and national immigrant flows to instrument for entry. We find that, as Asian students arrive, white student enrollment declines in higher-income suburbs. These patterns cannot be fully explained by racial animus, housing prices, or correlations with Black/Hispanic arrivals. Parental fears of academic competition may play a role.

Notes:

Print version record

July 2023.