| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP5663 |
| DP5663 Agglomeration, Offshoring and Heterogenous Firms | |
| Richard Baldwin; Toshihiro Okubo | |
| 发表日期 | 2006-05-02 |
| 出版年 | 2006 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which determined whether they would attend an academically oriented grammar school or a lower level secondary school. The reform proceeded at an uneven pace in different areas, so that both secondary school systems coexist during the 1960s and 70s. The British transition therefore provides an excellent laboratory for the study of the impact of a comprehensive versus a selective school system on student achievement. Previous studies analyzing this transition have typically used a valueadded methodology: they compare outcomes for students passing through either type of school controlling for achievement levels at the time of entering secondary education. While this seems like a reasonable research design, we demonstrate that it is unlikely to successfully eliminate selection effects in who attends what type of school. Very similar results are obtained by looking at the effect of secondary school environment on achievement at age 11 and controlling for age 7 achievement. Since children only enter secondary school at age 11, these effects are likely due to selection bias. Careful choice of treatment and control areas, and using political control of the county as an instrument for early implementation of the comprehensive regime do not solve this problem. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Comprehensive schools Selective secondary schooling Tracking |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp5663 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/534508 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Richard Baldwin,Toshihiro Okubo. DP5663 Agglomeration, Offshoring and Heterogenous Firms. 2006. |
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