Are school counselors an effective education input?

Scott Carrell and Mark Hoekstra

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 125, issue 1, 66-69

Abstract: We exploit within-school variation in counselors and find that one additional counselor reduces student misbehavior and increases boys’ academic achievement by over one percentile point. These effects compare favorably with those of increased teacher quality and smaller class sizes.

Keywords: Education production; School counselors; School inputs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.07.020

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