Arbeitspapier

Are Non-Eligible Students Affected by Special Education?

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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4156

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

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

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Vaag Iversen, Jon Marius
  • Bonesrønning, Hans
  • Pettersen, Ivar
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2013

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