The curse of low expectations

Battaglia, Marianna; Lebedinski, Lara

doi:10.1111/ecot.12134

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“…These people help and support Roma children at school. Serbia also has assistants in schools since 2008, but their effectiveness is limited as they are expected to work with a large number of Roma pupils (Battaglia & Lebedinski, 2015;2017). Roma are disadvantage not only on the labour market and at school, but they also experience worse health outcomes than the majority of the population (Doyle, 2004).…”

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An Evaluation of the Short-term Skills Trainings Targeting the Roma Ethnic Minority

Lebedinski

2022

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This paper studies the impact of short-term skills trainings targeting youth in the Roma ethnic minority. In order to better understand the impact of the program, we contrast outcomes of Roma and non-Roma. Participants of these short-term skills trainings were predominantly males in their twenties. The impact estimates of skills trainings for Roma are 15.55 percentage points while for non-Roma we find an impact of 28.60 percentage points. In international comparisons these impacts are very large suggesting that the program has an exceptionally high impact on participants. It is difficult to pinpoint the reasons why Roma and non-Roma have different impact estimates, but potential explanations are differences in background characteristics (education and working experience) and differences in the content of the trainings that these two groups attended.

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An Evaluation of the Short-term Skills Trainings Targeting the Roma Ethnic Minority

Lebedinski

2022

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“…11Battaglia and Lebedinski (2014) find that parental perceived returns of Roma in Serbia are low and respond positively to a Roma Teaching Assistant Program.…”

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Decomposing Gaps Between Roma and Non-Roma in Romania

Rauh

2018

J. Dem. Econ.

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It is widely known that the Roma have been suffering persistent disadvantages. Yet, little empirical evidence exists. Using the censuses of 1977, 1992, 2002, and 2011, I provide a comprehensive overview of the past, present, and an outlook on the future of the Roma in Romania, home to a large and rapidly growing Roma community. Young Roma, in particular girls, are less likely to be attending school, indicating that lack of educational attainment is likely to persist. The Roma have worse housing conditions and face lower employment and higher unemployment levels. Amongst Roma, females are less likely to be employed than males. Oaxaca–Blinder decompositions of the ethnic and gender employment gaps reveal that the differences in employment cannot be fully explained by observables, such as age or education. Despite the seemingly dire picture, there are signs of improvement for more recent cohorts, as literacy rates have reached close to universal levels.

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With a little help from my friends: Medium-Term effects of a remedial education program targeting Roma minority

Battaglia

Lebedinski

2022

Economics of Education Review

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The curse of low expectations

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

An Evaluation of the Short-term Skills Trainings Targeting the Roma Ethnic Minority

An Evaluation of the Short-term Skills Trainings Targeting the Roma Ethnic Minority

Decomposing Gaps Between Roma and Non-Roma in Romania

With a little help from my friends: Medium-Term effects of a remedial education program targeting Roma minority

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