Are Non-Eligible Students Affected by Special Education?

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We investigate whether the academic performance of non-eligible students - in an institutional setting of full inclusion - are affected by special education resources. Special education resources are per definition provided in a compensatory manner, and are increasingly being targeted to misbehaving students. The hypothesis is thus that special education resources might dampen the negative externalities associated with misbehaving students, and thus work to improve the performance of non-eligible students. We take advantage of a large, across-the-board increase in the proportion of eligible students, and combine fixed effects with an IV-approach, to identify the causal effects of special education on the academic performance of non-eligible students. We find that non-eligible students are positively affected by an increase in the number of hours in special education per eligible student.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4156

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Education: Government Policy ; National Government Expenditures and Education
• Subject: student achievement ; special education ; externalities

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Vaag Iversen, Jon Marius ; Bonesrønning, Hans ; Pettersen, Ivar
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/71185
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET