Robustness Report: "Going to a Better School: Effects and Behavioral Responses", by Cristian Pop-Eleches and Miguel Urquiola (2013)

Douglas Campbell, Abel Brodeur, Magnus Johannesson, Joseph Kopecky, Lester Lusher and Nikita Tsoy

No 133, I4R Discussion Paper Series from The Institute for Replication (I4R)

Abstract: Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) apply a regression discontinuity to the Romanian secondary school system, and notably find that (a) students who go to a better school get higher scores on an exam used for university admission, (b) parents of students who get into a better school help their kids less with homework, and (c) kids who go to a slightly better school report more negative interactions with peers. We first reproduce all regression tables in Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013), and then test for robustness by unstacking the data, multi-way clustering, altering the cutoffs, altering control variables, and conducting influential analysis. Overall, we find the results for finding (a), (b), and (c) are robust in 100%, 42%, and 60% of the robustness checks we ran, and the t/z scores were on average 93%, 69%, and 92% as large as the original study.

Keywords: Education; Peer Effects; Economics of Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I28 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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