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来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.77,P.27-40

语言

英文

关键字

I2;H4;Education reform;Small schools;Heterogeneous treatment;Instrumental variables

作者单位

Steinhardt and Wagner Schools, New York University, 295 Lafayette Street, Third Floor, New York, NY 10012, USA;Department of Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, PO Box 879801, Tempe, AZ 85287-9801, USA;Institute for Education and Social Policy, New York University, USA;Steinhardt and Wagner Schools, New York University, 295 Lafayette Street, Third Floor, New York, NY 10012, USA;Department of Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, PO Box 879801, Tempe, AZ 85287-9801, USA;Institute for Education and Social Policy, New York University, USA

摘要

We evaluate the effectiveness of small high school reform in the country’s largest school district, New York City. Using a rich administrative dataset for multiple cohorts of students and distance between student residence and school to instrument for endogenous school selection, we find substantial heterogeneity in school effects: newly created small schools have positive effects on graduation and some other education outcomes while older small schools do not. Importantly, we show that ignoring this source of treatment effect heterogeneity by assuming a common small school effect yields a misleading zero effect of small school attendance.