Arbeitspapier

Identification of causal education effects using a discontinuity in school entry tests: First results from a pilot study

We use a credible regression discontinuity design to estimate causal education effects. Pupils in the Swiss education system had to pass a centrally organized exam that classified them into different levels of secondary school, and that ultimately determined their educational degree. A major feature of this exam was the local randomization around the classification threshold due to the impossibility of strategic sorting. Our preliminary results suggest large and significant effects on earnings, political interest, and attitudes toward immigrants. The extension to a wider set of data is part of ongoing research.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 11-03

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Analysis of Education
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Thema
returns to education
causality
endogeneity
regression discontinuity
Bildungsertrag
Bildungsniveau
Schüler
Test
Schulauswahl
Schweiz

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Boes, Stefan
Hangartner, Dominik
Schmid, Lukas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Bern, Department of Economics
(wo)
Bern
(wann)
2011

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Boes, Stefan
  • Hangartner, Dominik
  • Schmid, Lukas
  • University of Bern, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2011

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