This paper aims to develop a fuller understanding of the relationship between the ethnic composition of childhood residential neighbourhoods, schools, and residential neighbourhoods later in life in producing and reproducing segregation. We apply a longitudinal research design on linked individual-level data from Estonia. Estonia is an interesting case because of the Soviet era population distribution policies and its ubiquitous state-funded educational system where minority parents can choose in which school—Russian-language or Estonian-language—their children study. We find that minority parents mostly opt for minority-dense schools and, if they do so, their children who grew up in minority-dense neighbourhoods also end up living in minority-dense neighbourhoods as adults. An inter-generational vicious circle of segregation forms. However, minority children who live in minority-dense neighbourhoods but study in majority-dense schools are more likely to end up living in majority-dense neighbourhoods later in life. Hence, intervening in school choice has the potential to contribute to inter-generational residential desegregation.

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少数族裔从少数族裔富人社区迁出：学校种族背景在代际居住取消种族隔离中是否重要？

本文旨在更全面地了解儿童居住区、学校和日后居住区的种族构成在产生和再生产隔离方面的关系。我们对来自爱沙尼亚的链接个人数据应用纵向研究设计。爱沙尼亚是一个有趣的案例，因为苏联时代的人口分配政策及其无处不在的国家资助教育系统，少数族裔父母可以选择他们的孩子在哪所学校学习——俄语或爱沙尼亚语。我们发现，少数族裔父母大多选择少数族裔密集的学校，如果他们这样做，他们在少数族裔密集社区长大的孩子成年后也最终生活在少数民族密集社区。代际隔离形成恶性循环。然而，住在少数民族密集社区但在多数密集学校学习的少数民族儿童更有可能在以后的生活中最终生活在多数密集社区。因此，干预学校选择有可能有助于消除代际居住隔离。