The impact of "equal educational opportunity" funds: A regression discontinuity design

Arbeitspapier

Many countries provide extra resources to schools serving disadvantaged pupils. We exploit a discontinuity in the assignment of such personnel subsidies in Flanders to estimate the impact on cognitive outcomes via a regression discontinuity (RD) design. Because bias can be substantial in RD designs, we include a bias correction in the specification of the control function. Overall, we find positive effects for mathematics, reading and spelling, but the impact is significant for spelling only. The effects are larger for disadvantaged pupils defined on the basis of family background, smaller - or less reliable - for low initial performers, and again larger at schools that used the resources to foster socio-emotional development.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5667

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Education and Inequality ; National Government Expenditures and Education
• Thema: school resources ; disadvantaged students ; impact evaluation ; Bildungspolitik ; Bildungschancen ; Schule ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Belgien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Ooghe, Erwin
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/52020
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201105173028
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:47 MEZ