全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP7073 Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice Between FDI and Outsourcing

G2TT

来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP7073
	DP7073 Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice Between FDI and Outsourcing
	James Markusen; Ignatius J Horstmann; Yongmin Chen
发表日期	2008-12-01
出版年	2008
语种	英语
摘要	To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from tracking if teachers would otherwise have incentives to teach to the top of the distribution. We propose a simple model nesting these effects. We compare 61 Kenyan schools in which students were randomly assigned to a first grade class with 60 in which students were assigned based on initial achievement. In non-tracking schools, students randomly assigned to academically stronger peers scored higher, consistent with a positive direct effect of academically strong peers. However, compared to their counterparts in non-tracking schools, students in tracking schools scored 0.14 standard deviations higher after 18 months, and this effect persisted one year after the program ended. Furthermore, students at all levels of the distribution benefited from tracking. Students near the median of the pre-test distribution benefited similarly whether assigned to the lower or upper section. A natural interpretation is that the direct effect of high achieving peers is positive, but that tracking benefited lower-achieving pupils indirectly by allowing teachers to teach at a level more appropriate to them.
主题	Development Economics
关键词	Development economics Education economics Primary school tracking
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp7073
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/535910
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	James Markusen,Ignatius J Horstmann,Yongmin Chen. DP7073 Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice Between FDI and Outsourcing. 2008.