Training teachers for diversity awareness: Impact on school outcomes of refugee children
Training teachers for diversity awareness: Impact on school outcomes of refugee children
Using administrative data and a regression discontinuity approach, we evaluate the effectiveness of a teacher training program aiming to improve school outcomes of refugee students. The program halves the absenteeism gap between native and refugee students, and its effect persists into the next academic year. It also improves the grades of refugee students in Turkish language and math, and there is a positive association between improved attendance and grades. One possible channel through which the program’s effects may operate is a schoolwide champion role assumed by trained teachers, which has a broad impact on raising diversity awareness within schools.
Refugees
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Tumen, Semih
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Vlassopoulos, Michael
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Wahba, Jackline
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Tumen, Semih
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Vlassopoulos, Michael
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Wahba, Jackline
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Tumen, Semih, Vlassopoulos, Michael and Wahba, Jackline
(2026)
Training teachers for diversity awareness: Impact on school outcomes of refugee children.
Journal of Human Resources, 61 (1), .
(doi:10.3368/jhr.0622-12378R2).
Abstract
Using administrative data and a regression discontinuity approach, we evaluate the effectiveness of a teacher training program aiming to improve school outcomes of refugee students. The program halves the absenteeism gap between native and refugee students, and its effect persists into the next academic year. It also improves the grades of refugee students in Turkish language and math, and there is a positive association between improved attendance and grades. One possible channel through which the program’s effects may operate is a schoolwide champion role assumed by trained teachers, which has a broad impact on raising diversity awareness within schools.
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Accepted/In Press date: 4 May 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 11 August 2023
Published date: 1 January 2026
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Local EPrints ID: 478024
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/478024
ISSN: 0022-166X
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