Do School Segregation and School Resources Explain Region-of-Origin Differences in the Mathematics Achievement of Immigrant Students?Footnote¹

1. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the spring meeting 2006 of the ISA Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility Intergenerational transmissions: Cultural, economic or social resources?, May 11th – 14th 2006, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. An earlier Dutch version was published in 2005 (Dronkers & Levels, Citation2005).

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