Away from home, better at school. The case of a British boarding school

Francesca Foliano, Francis Green and Marcello Sartarelli

Economics of Education Review, 2019, vol. 73, issue C

Abstract: In this paper we study whether substituting family inputs with school resources in an academically oriented environment has an impact on achievement in high-stakes national examinations. We use administrative data for England to estimate the effect of attending a selective boarding school that admits an unusually high share of pupils with low socio-economic status on attainment at the end of compulsory education. By using propensity score matching we obtain comparable control groups in selective non-boarding schools. Our main finding is that the probability of being in the top decile of achievement in the exams increases by about 18 percentage points compared to 59% for controls.

Keywords: Ability; Achievement gap; Boarding; Education; Grammar school; GCSE; Private school; Socio-economic status; SES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 I32 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.101911

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