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The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement
This paper evaluates the effects of two subsidies targeted at disadvantaged pupils in the Netherlands. The first scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent minority pupils extra funding for personnel. The second scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent pupils from different disadvantaged groups extra funding for computers and software. The cutoffs at 70 percent provide a regression discontinuity design which we exploit in a local difference-in-differences framework. For both subsidies we find negative point estimates. For the personnel subsidy these are in most cases not significantly different from zero. For the computer subsidy we find more evidence of negative effects. We discuss several explanations for these counterintuitive results.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1122
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Education: Government Policy
Analysis of Education
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policy evaluation
disadvantaged students
computers
teachers
regression discontinuity
Schulfinanzierung
Bildungsniveau
Bildungschancen
Niederlande
Benachteiligte
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Webbink, Dinand
Oosterbeek, Hessel
Lindahl, Mikael
Leuven, Edwin
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
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2004
- Handle
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Webbink, Dinand
- Oosterbeek, Hessel
- Lindahl, Mikael
- Leuven, Edwin
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2004
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