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Unequal Access: High Discrimination Rates Found for Muslim-Danish School Transfers


allocative exclusion
Denmark
school access
bias audit
Public Administration
AJPS
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The Unequal Distribution of Opportunity: A National Audit Study of Bureaucratic Discrimination in Primary School Access was authored by Asmus Leth Olsen, Jonas Høgh Kyhse-Andersen and Donald Moynihan. It was published by Wiley in AJPS in 2022.

This study investigates bureaucratic discrimination against fathers with typical Danish versus Muslim names when requesting school transfers. We surveyed 1,698 Danish primary schools. Both groups received similar initial response rates but faced stark differences in outcomes.

Key Finding: Discrimination via allocative exclusion was significant—Danes accepted at 25%, Muslims only 15%

Mechanism: Administrative burdens disproportionately affected Muslim fathers, requiring more additional questions during the process

🔍 Methodology: We designed a national audit by contacting schools with identical requests from different ethnic backgrounds to reveal implicit biases

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