RT Journal Article
T1 The role of catchment areas on school segregation by economic, social and cultural characteristics
A1 Prieto-Latorre, Claudia
A1 Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
A1 Lopez-Agudo, Luis Alejandro
K1 Discriminación en la enseñanza
AB This research analyses the socioeconomic and cultural segregation of students across school catchment areas using census data for the students in their second year of secondary education in Andalusia (the most populated region in Spain). The main methodology used is the Mutual Information Index, which satisfies all the desirable properties for measuring segregation. Concretely, we draw upon the additive decomposability property, which decomposes the segregation of students across schools into the different levels in which schools can be grouped, that is, catchment areas and, within catchment areas, by source of funding (public and semiprivate schools). We found that school segregation is greater than catchment areas’ segregation. Additionally, statistically significant correlations are found between the level of segregation within the catchment areas and factors such as size of the catchment area, parental level of education and size of the municipality where the school is located.
PB Springer
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33953
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33953
LA eng
NO Prieto-Latorre, C., Marcenaro-Gutierrez, O. D., & Lopez-Agudo, L. A. (2021). The role of catchment areas on school segregation by economic, social and cultural characteristics. Social Indicators Research, 158(3), 1013-1044.
NO The authors acknowledge the training received from the University of Malaga PhD Program in Economics and Business [Programa de Doctorado en Economía y Empresa de la Universidad de Malaga]. This work has been partly supported by FEDER funding (under Research Project UMA18FEDERJA024); Fundación Pública Andaluza Centro de Estudios Andaluces (under Research Project PRY085/19); the Andalusian Regional Government (SEJ-645) and Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (scholarship FPU17/00432).
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026