Replication data for: Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation

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. (JEL H75, I21, J15, J24, J61, R23)

本研究旨在考察美国低技能移民是否通过降低本土民众对公立学校（public schools）的需求，进而加剧了移民群体的居住隔离。本研究借助加利福尼亚州境内已成型的墨西哥裔定居模式，解决学校人口统计数据中的内生性（endogeneity）问题，并通过设置对照组来控制移民所产生的广泛外溢效应。经估算，在1970年至2000年间，加利福尼亚州平均每新增10户将低英语水平西班牙裔子女送入本地公立学校的家庭，该学区（school district）平均就会有超过14户有子女的非西班牙裔家庭迁往其都会区内的其他学区。本土居民针对移民的这种反应，通过不成比例地隔离儿童群体，可能带来比此前学界预期更为深远的长期影响。（JEL H75, I21, J15, J24, J61, R23）