Balarin, M. & A. Escudero (2018). The ungoverned education market and the deepening  of socio-economic school segregation in Peru. En Xavier Bonal y Cristián Bellei (Eds.), Understanding school segregation: patterns, causes and consequences of spatial inequalities in Education (pp. 179-200). London: Bloomsbury Academic

This chapter explores how these trends explain existing patterns of socio-economic school segregation. While other forms of educational segregation – such as that between rural and urban education – are important, the chapter will focus on what is happening in urban areas as a consequence of the expansion of the private education market. We argue that the widespread establishment of choice in both the state and the private education sector, as well as between these two, which has emerged in a largely ungoverned way since the early 2000s, is one of the main explanatory factors. In order to do this, we discuss available evidence on socio-economic school segregation in Peru and the factors that contribute to it. We discuss the effects of residential segregation on socio-economic school segregation, but concentrate more on exploring how the widespread dynamics of educational choice may have contributed to this phenomenon.