Neighbourhood effects and educ ation policy in Indigenous communities
Abstract:
A cross the Americas and Oceania\, Indigenous youth living in historically se gregated or marginalized Indigenous communities attain less education than Indigenous youth living elsewhere. Using administrative data from British C olumbia and exploiting variation in the age at which students move to and f rom legally delineated Indigenous communities known as reserves\, I show th at this gap reflects causal exposure effects rather than differences in stu dent composition. Reserve exposure has especially detrimental effects for s tudents attending on-reserve schools\, long under-resourced relative to com parable public schools. I find that increasing on-reserve school funding su bstantially raises educational attainment\, while culturally relevant pedag ogy initiatives in public schools also improve outcomes for on-reserve stud ents. Importantly\, Indigenous community exposure increases Indigenous lang uage knowledge\, highlighting the need for policies that strengthen educati on while preserving cultural connection.
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Organized by: Sam Norris
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