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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w16746 |
来源ID | Working Paper 16746 |
Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools: Evidence from SEED | |
Vilsa E. Curto; Roland G. Fryer, Jr. | |
发表日期 | 2011-01-27 |
出版年 | 2011 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The SEED schools, which combine a "No Excuses'' charter model with a five-day-a-week boarding program, are America's only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of understanding whether changing a student's environment through boarding is a cost-effective strategy to increase achievement among the poor. Using admission lotteries, we show that attending a SEED school increases achievement by 0.198 standard deviations in reading and 0.230 standard deviations in math, per year of attendance. Despite these relatively large impacts, the return on investment in SEED is less than five percent due to the substantial costs of boarding. Similar "No Excuses'' charter schools -- without a boarding option -- have a return on investment of over eighteen percent. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16746 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574420 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Vilsa E. Curto,Roland G. Fryer, Jr.. Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools: Evidence from SEED. 2011. |
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