Refugees and the Education of Host Populations: Evidence from the Syrian Inflow to Jordan

In this section, we first introduce descriptive evidence on the school supply response based on the distribution of Jordanian and Syrian students across the number of shifts, the proportion of Syrian students, the student-teacher ratio, and the classroom density. [...] For the locality-level regressions, we examine the following outcomes: (1) the number of public non-UNRWA basic and secondary schools in the locality, (2) the number of double-shift public non- UNRWA basic and secondary schools in the locality, (3) the proportion of Jordanian students in shifts that have at least 30 students per classroom out of the total number of Jordanian students in the locali. [...] We have also investigated the impact of Syrian presence at the locality level on the proportion of Jordanian students in private schools out of the total number of Jordanian students in public, private, and UNRWA schools in the locality. [...] As shown in Table 5, the proportion of Jordanians in double-shift schools increases as the percentage of Syrians in the school increases, but at the highest percent Syrian category (10-100 percent), the proportion of Jordanian students in the first shift increases substantially, but the proportion of those in the second shift declines relative to more intermediate levels of exposure to Syrians. [...] The horizontal axis in the top panel is the number of students divided by the number of classrooms, and the horizontal axis in the bottom panel is the number of students divided by the number of teachers.